Muslims and Modernity
Current Debates
1st Edition
Published on 1. January 2005
306 pages
978-1-4411-0050-4 (ISBN)
Description
Can democracy flourish in Muslim society? What does the Qur'an say about women, minorities, human rights? Are Islam and the West on a collision course? After 9/11, much has been written about the inevitability of a clash between Islam and the West, as their worldviews compete for global supremacy. Recent developments have done little to challenge this thesis, or the West's negative image of Islam. The author compares and contrasts contributions from "traditional" and "progressive" Muslims. Voicing at least two Muslim opinions in each area of debate, this book challenges the idea that all Muslims think identically. While Muslims and Modernity is designed primarily for use an undergraduate textbook, reference to accessible Internet material, to literature and to popular as well as scholarly sources will broaden its appeal to a general readership. This book's discussion draws on post-colonial theory, feminist analyses, anthropology, cultural and religious studies, politics and philosophy.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
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978-1-4411-0050-4 (9781441100504)
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Clinton Bennett teaches Religious Studies at the State University of New York at New Paltz,
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Pedagogical Preface
- In the public eye
- Aims and approach
- A left-right analysis
- Introduction: Voices and Viewpoints
- Methodology: virtual insidership
- Polarized viewpoints
- Media and anti-Islamism
- Does Islam threaten the West?
- 1. Modernity, Postmodernity and the World of Islam
- The crises of modernity
- What is modernism?
- Postmodernity and Islam
- Postmodernism and Marxist analysis
- Muslim responses: Akbar Ahmed (1992) and Ziauddin Sardar (1998)
- 2. Muslims and Democracy
- Democracy - whose version?
- Double standards
- Four models
- Summary of the historical legacy
- Mawdudi's model: theo-democracy (centre right)
- Rule by an elite: the case of Saudi Arabia
- The centre-left's model: Taha's Second Message of Islam
- Secular Islam: the far left
- Literary case study: Ahdaf Soueif's The Map of Love
- 3. Muslims on Human Rights
- An imposition from outside?
- Mawdudi and the Muslim right: human rights and Islam
- The hizb-ut-tahrir and human rights
- The Universal Islamic Declaration of Human Rights (1981)
- Bassam Tibi on human rights
- An-Na'im on Islam and human rights
- Freedom of expression and the limits of dissent: Hisbah
- Literary case study: Hanif Kureishi's The Black Album
- 4. Muslim Voices on the Qur'an
- Common ground
- How Muslims view the Qur'an
- A multiplicity of voices
- Progressive contributions
- A contextual approach
- 5. Islamic Epistemology
- The Islamization of knowledge: supporters and critics
- Al-Faruqi: Islam the religion of reason, science and progress
- Nasr: the goal of education is to actualize all the possibilities of the human soul
- Nasr and Mawdudi: convergence and divergence
- Bucaillism: the Qur'an as a scientific text
- Sardar: a critique of al-Faruqi and Nasr
- Reviving the Mu'tazalite heritage
- 6. Muslim Voices on Gender in Islam
- Introducing the debate
- Mawdudi: equal but different
- Feminist Muslim responses
- Male contributions
- Islamic feminism: human rights and humanist critiques
- Literary case study: two Egyptian novels and Alf Laylah Wa Laylah
- 7. Non-Muslims in the Muslim World: Voices and Views
- Four positions on Islam and non-Muslims
- Mawdudi: theory and reality of the classical dhimmi model
- The centre left and non-Muslims in an Islamic state
- The radical left
- Literary case study: Nasrin's Lajja
- 8. Muslims as Minorities: Voices and Views
- Three strategies
- Muslims in non-Muslim territory: what do the founding discourses say?
- India: a case study of the three strategies
- The confrontational response in Diaspora Islam
- The separatist response
- The integrationist mode
- Literary case study: Monica Ali's Brick Lane
- 9. War and Peace in Islam: The Traditional View
- Muslim understanding of war and peace
- Sayyid Qutb on jihad
- Mawdudi's and Qutb's impact on contemporary Muslim life
- The case of Palestine
- 10. Progressive and Moderate Muslims on War and Peace
- Rethinking jihad
- Shaltut's treatise on 'The Koran and Fighting'
- Al-Qaradawi and jihad
- Muslims on 9/11
- The issue of suicide
- Progressive Musims on pacifist Islam
- Some non-Muslims respond to 9/11 and Islamic terrorism
- 11. Algeria: A Study in Islamic Resurgence, and Bangladesh: Culture v. Islam
- Algeria's colonial legacy
- Al-Jaza'ir 'Arabiyya wa al-Islam dinuha (Algeria is Arab and Islam is its religion)
- Literary case study: Camus's L'Etranger
- Post-independence
- The demand for autonomy
- Democracy as a movable feast
- Bangladesh: a case study
- Bibliography
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Y
- Z
- Index of Qur'an Verses Cited
