Islam between culture and politics /
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| Author / Creator: | Tibi, Bassam. |
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| Imprint: | Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave in association with the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, 2001. |
| Description: | xvii, 271 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4561938 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface to the First Edition
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Islam between Culture and Politics: the Scope and Implications
- The issues: what is political Islam?
- Islam and cultural modernity
- Is semi-modernity manageable?
- An important distinction: globalisation and universalisation
- Ignorance and confusion
- From Islamic modernism to fundamentalism
- From the caliphate to the secular nation-state - and back to an Islamic order?
- The place of this book in my study of Islam: the formative years
- The cultural study of Islam
- Part I. Religion, Culture and Development - Islam between Past and Present
- Introductory remarks
- 1. Religion, Culture and Social Reality: Islam as a Cultural System, and its Diversity
- The tension between belief and reality
- The symbolic clothing of reality
- What is Islam? Unity and diversity in historical perspective: religion between doctrine and reality
- Islam between divine law, everyday spirituality and a rational view of the world
- 2. Cultural Patterns and the Perception of Change in Islam. A Religious Model for Reality: the Islamic Worldview
- The historical background: the Islamic religious view of the world, its sources and its goal
- The Islamic sources of the prevailing cultural patterns
- Islamic law (Shari'a): a social regulative or a stumbling block?
- The exposure to the industrial West in the modern age
- 3. Culture and Social Change: Tradition and Innovation in Cultural Analysis
- The study of culture at the crossroads
- Evolution and modernisation
- Religious reformation and cultural innovation
- Who are the instigators of cultural innovations?
- Part II. The Context: the Politicisation of Islam in the Global Age
- Introductory remarks
- 4. The Dichotomy of Structural Globalisation and Fragmenting Cultural Self-Assertion: the Case of Islamic Civilisation
- Culture, economy and politics in the global age
- Islam at the crossroads: competing civilisational models for the future
- An interplay is not a mechanism: modernisation, culture and development
- Bringing culture into international studies: what is development in a global context?
- Civilisations do matter!
- Civilisation-awareness, politicisation of religion and its impact
- Modernisation and secularisation: religion, culture, social change and politics
- Is the politics of Islamic revival a spiritual mobilisation?
- Islam between secularisation and de-secularisation
- From secularisation to profanation?
- 5. The Politicisation of Religion: Political Islam as a Defensive-Cultural Response to Global Challenges. A Social-Scientific Interpretation
- The socio-political constraints. The political revitalisation of Islam
- al-nizam al-Islami as a backward-looking political utopia of political Islam
- 6. From Religious Belief to Political Commitment: the Fundamentalist Revolt against the Secular Order. Between Cultural Modernity and Neo-Absolutism
- A clear distinction: Islam is not Islamism. Cultural relativist confusions
- The background: the predicament with modernity
- Culture and knowledge
- Islam and the West: a cultural revolt?
- Conclusion
- Part III. The Framework: the Means of Politicisation. The Revival of the Shari'a and the Islamisation of Education
- Introductory remarks
- 7. Social Change and the Potential for Flexibility in Islamic Law: the Shari'a between Ethics and Politicisation
- Legal differences and cultural diversity
- The roots and patterns. Islamic law as Shari'a
- The reform of Islamic law and the potential for flexibility in the Islamic notion of law
- 8. Institutions of Learning and Education in Islam: between the Cultural Accommodation of Change, Religious Orthodoxy and the Politics of Cultural Islamisation
- Learning in Islam and Islamic institutions of education
- The Universitas Litterarum as a European educational institution: its universalisation and incursion into the Islamic civilisation
- The crisis of Muslim education and the related cultural perceptions
- Part IV. The Topicality: Islam and the West between Inter-Civilisational Dialogue and Political Antagonisation
- Introductory remarks
- 9. Islam Matters to the West! Islam and Europe, Islam in Europe: Islamic Migration between Cultural Assimilation, Political Integration and Communitarian Ghettoisation
- Islam in Europe: the Euro-Mediterranean dimension
- Is the global village an international system or an international society?
- Islam and the West in the Euro-Mediterranean region. Inherited burdens and new patterns
- Islam in the West: culture and politics
- Dialogue needs to be reason-based. The politicisation of cultural-religious beliefs leads to confrontation
- An urgent distinction: cultural pluralism is not communitarian multiculturalism
- What Islam in Europe? Conclusions
- 10. Islam and the West in the Age of Conflict among Civilisations: the Alternative of Intercultural Dialogue as a Means of Conflict Resolution
- Why do Europeans know so little about Islam?
- Religion and politics in Europe and Islam
- Between polemics and analysis: understanding world politics and the heterogeneity of civilisations
- Islam: civilisational unity in cultural diversity
- Islam and the claim for a de-Westernisation of the world
- The options: head-on collision or bridge-building between the civilisations
- An alternative to fundamentalism in Europe: Euro-Islam as an opening for migrants
- Is an Islamic-Western peace of civilisations possible? Cultural dialogue without self-denial
- Part V. The Predicament of Islam between Culture and Politics Revisited after September 11, 2001 and March 11, 2004
- Introductory remarks
- 11. September 11, the Global Cultural Turn and the Return of the Sacred in Islamic Civilisation: between Religious Revival and the New Totalitarianism of Political islam
- Is Orientalism at work when jihadism is addressed critically?: freedom of speech, the philosophical discourse of modernity and the study of Islam
- Islam and the debate on the return of the sacred
- The study of political Islam since the Islamic Revolution in Iran and September 11: the overall context
- The alternative to global jihad: joining democratic peace
- Political religion vs globalisation and the secular nation-state
- Is dialogue over order possible under conditions of polarisation? Islamic peace vs democratic peace
- Islam and the return of the sacred revisited: conclusions
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Name Index
- Subject Index
