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Book cover image of Islam Globalization and Postmodernity by Akbar S. Ahmed

Authors: Akbar S. Ahmed (Editor), Hastings Donnan
ISBN-13: 9780415093668, ISBN-10: 041509366X
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: November 1994
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Akbar S. Ahmed

Book Synopsis

Islam, Globalization and Postmodernity examines the cultural responses of Muslims to the transformations, contradictions and challenges confronting contemporary Islam as it moves toward the twenty-first century. The diffusion of populations, the globalization of culture and the forces of postmodernity have shaken the world like never before. These developments have generated a debate among Muslims which, as the contributors to this volume show, will have far-reaching consequences not just for the Muslim world, but for relations between Islam and the West more generally.

Contributors: Richard Antoun; Abubaker Bagader; Ernest Gellner; Tomas Gerholm; Fred Halliday; Judith Nagata; Martin Stokes; Gerholm Thaiss; Helen Watson; Anita Weiss and Phina Werbner.

Table of Contents

List of contributors
Foreword
1Islam in the age of postmodernity1
2Turkish arabesk and the city: Urban popular culture as spatial practice21
3Contested meanings and the politics of authenticity: The 'Hosay' in Trinidad38
4How to be Islamic without being an Islamic state: Contested models of development in Malaysia63
5The politics of Islamic fundamentalism: Iran, Tunisia and the challenge to the secular state91
6Contemporary Islamic movements in the Arab world114
7Challenges for Muslim women in a postmodern world127
8Women and the veil: Personal responses to global process141
9Sojourners abroad: Migration for higher education in a post-peasant Muslim society160
10Two Muslim intellectuals in the postmodern West: Akbar Ahmed and Ziauddin Sardar190
11Diaspora and millennium: British Pakistani global-local fabulations of the Gulf War213
Index237

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