Bassam Tibi offers a radical solution to the problems faced by Islam in a rapidly changing and globalizing world. He argues that Islam is being torn between the pressure for cultural innovation and a defensive move towards the politicization of its symbols for non-religious ends. Tibi proposes a depoliticization of the faith and the introduction of reforms to embrace secular democracy, pluralism, civil society, and individual human rights. The alternative to this is the impasse of fundamentalism.
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"Bassam Tibi has produced yet another impressive and thought-provoking book...an elaborate and sophisticated cultural analysis that painstakingly attempts to define concepts, elucidate relationships, and propose solutions for the dilemmas at hand."--Emad Ei Din Shahin, International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies
"Bassam Tibi has produced yet another impressive and thought-provoking book...an elaborate and sophisticated cultural analysis that painstakingly attempts to define concepts, elucidate relationships, and propose solutions for the dilemmas at hand."--Emad Ei Din Shahin, International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies
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Bassam Tibi is Professor of International Relations at the University of Göttingen.
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Among the hallmarks of our new century is the renewed importance of religion. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
structural globalisation, predicament with modernity, juristic hermeneutics, topical thinking, spiritual mobilisation, attitudes toward modern science, politicised religion, topical discourse, defensive culture, intellectual invasion, related worldview, global grounds, cultural modernity, cultural accommodation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
International Relations, Shi'a Islam, Cold War, Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Third World, United States, Arab Islamic, Reinhard Bendix, Shari'a Islam, Western Europe, African Islam, Sufi Islam, Sunni Islam, Tariqa Islam, Max Weber, Maxime Rodinson, Norbert Elias, Hedley Bull, High Islam, Middle Ages, Niklas Luhmann, Wahhabi Islam, After Muhammed, Clifford Geertz New!
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Among the hallmarks of our new century is the renewed importance of religion. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
structural globalisation, predicament with modernity, juristic hermeneutics, topical thinking, spiritual mobilisation, attitudes toward modern science, politicised religion, topical discourse, defensive culture, intellectual invasion, related worldview, global grounds, cultural modernity, cultural accommodation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
International Relations, Shi'a Islam, Cold War, Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Third World, United States, Arab Islamic, Reinhard Bendix, Shari'a Islam, Western Europe, African Islam, Sufi Islam, Sunni Islam, Tariqa Islam, Max Weber, Maxime Rodinson, Norbert Elias, Hedley Bull, High Islam, Middle Ages, Niklas Luhmann, Wahhabi Islam, After Muhammed, Clifford Geertz New!
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- The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order by Samuel P. Huntington on 8 pages
- Islam and the Cultural Accommodation of Social Change by Bassam Tibi on 6 pages
- The Challenge of Fundamentalism: Political Islam and the New World Disorder by Bassam Tibi on 5 pages
- The Civilizing Process: Sociogenetic and Psychogenetic Investigations by Norbert Elias on 4 pages
- Islamic Philosophy and Theology (Islamic Surveys) by W. M. Watt in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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- Muslim Ethics: Emerging Vistas by Amyn B. Sajoo on 5 pages
- Developing Cultures: Case Studies by Lawrence E. Harrison on page 181, and Back Matter
- Developing Cultures: Essays on Cultural Change by Lawrence E. Harrison on page 260, and Index
- Islam in World Politics (Routledgecurzon Advances in Middle East and Islamic Studies) by Nelly Lahoud on page 92
- Islam in a Globalizing World by Thomas W. Simons Jr. in Back Matter
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