Authors: Abdul Aziz Said
ISBN-13: 9780761825234, ISBN-10: 0761825231
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University Press of America
Date Published: May 2003
Edition: 1st Edition
This edited volume is a compilation of original scholarly papers on the theme of cultural diversity in Islamic thought and practice under conditions of early and late modernity, with a specific contemporary focus on the crisis of religious tolerance in the Muslim world. Particular emphasis is placed upon Islamic concepts of cultural diversity as they contrast to the traditional Western liberal approach that takes a neutral position on tolerance to cultural difference.
Acknowledgments | ||
Introduction: A Summary of Papers | 1 | |
Sect. 1 | Cultural Diversity in Civilizational Perspectives | 15 |
Ch. 1 | Dynamics of Cultural Diversity and Tolerance in Islam | 17 |
Ch. 2 | Unity and Diversity in Islam and Islamic Civilization | 31 |
Ch. 3 | Continuities and Discontinuities in Islamic Perspectives on Cultural Diversity | 39 |
Ch. 4 | "True" and "False" Pluralism in the West and Islam | 57 |
Sect. 2 | Islamic Perspectives on Cultural Diversity | 83 |
Ch. 5 | The Conceptual Foundation of Cultural Diversity in Pre-Modern Islamic Civilization | 85 |
Ch. 6 | The Islamic Encounter with the Chinese Intellectual Tradition | 107 |
Ch. 7 | Pluralism and Islamic Perspectives on Cultural Diversity | 119 |
Sect. 3 | Crisis in Islamic State and Society | 129 |
Ch. 8 | Islamists as Modernizers? | 131 |
Ch. 9 | The Transformation of Iranian Political Culture: From Collectivism to Individualism | 149 |
Sect. 4 | Alternative Models of Coexistence | 163 |
Ch. 10 | Religio-Cultural Diversity: For What and With Whom? Muslim Reflections from a Post-Apartheid South Africa in the Throes of Globalization | 165 |
Ch. 11 | Personal Reflections on Intellectual Diversity and Islam: The Example of Lebanon | 187 |
Ch. 12 | Muslim Communal Nonviolent Actions: Minority Coexistence in a Non-Muslim Society | 195 |
Endnotes | 209 | |
Editors' Biographical Sketches | 235 | |
About the Contributors | 237 |