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Islam in Global Modernity

Sociological Theory and the Diversity of Islamic Modernities

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Authors:
  1. Dietrich Jung

    1. Center for Modern Middle East and Muslim Studies, University of Southern Denmark, Odense M, Denmark

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  • Combines innovative sociological theory with Islamic studies
  • Reviews the modernisation theoretical understanding of Islamic history
  • Opposes the hegemony of the identity politics debates of our time

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction: Islam, Modernity, Modernities, and the “Provincialization” of Europe

    • Dietrich Jung
    Pages 1-17

  3. Islam and Modernity: A Sketch of the Academic Engagement with the Middle East and Islam

    • Dietrich Jung
    Pages 19-38

  4. Islam and the Diversity of Modernity: Multiple, Successive, and Entangled Modernities

    • Dietrich Jung
    Pages 39-65

  5. Islam and the Unity of Modernity: Modernization as an “Empty Progression”

    • Dietrich Jung
    Pages 67-93

  6. Islam and the Emergence of Modernity: World Society as an Emergent Social Reality

    • Dietrich Jung
    Pages 95-126

  7. Islam and the Modern Subject: Contingency, Identity, and Subject Cultures

    • Dietrich Jung
    Pages 127-160

  8. Islam and the Modern “World Culture”: Organizations, Institutions, and Social Actors

    • Dietrich Jung
    Pages 161-195

  9. Conclusion: World Society and the Islamic Discourse of Modernity

    • Dietrich Jung
    Pages 197-216
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About this book

This book combines sociological theorising with studies on the Middle East and Islam. The diversity of modernities that can be observed in our world is linked to the claim of living in a global modernity, in a world society. The book underpins this claim with numerous excursions into Islamic history. It criticises the view that modernisation can be equated with westernisation and considers different projects of specifically Islamic modernities as integral parts of world society. From this perspective, the study contributes to the "provincialisation" of European history in contemporary social scientific thought. Contrary to the theories of postcolonialism associated with the call for the provincialisation of Europe, however, this book adheres to essential traditions of classical sociology. It thus aims to make a contribution to the social theoretical discussion on modernity, which is empirically underpinned with the help of data from the history of the Middle East and Islam.

The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence. A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content.




Authors and Affiliations

  • Center for Modern Middle East and Muslim Studies, University of Southern Denmark, Odense M, Denmark

    Dietrich Jung

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Dr Dietrich Jung is Professor in the Department of History and Director of the Center for Modern Middle East and Muslim Studies at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU) in Odense.




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