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)
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.
List of contributors | ||
Foreword | ||
1 | Islam in the age of postmodernity | 1 |
2 | Turkish arabesk and the city: Urban popular culture as spatial practice | 21 |
3 | Contested meanings and the politics of authenticity: The 'Hosay' in Trinidad | 38 |
4 | How to be Islamic without being an Islamic state: Contested models of development in Malaysia | 63 |
5 | The politics of Islamic fundamentalism: Iran, Tunisia and the challenge to the secular state | 91 |
6 | Contemporary Islamic movements in the Arab world | 114 |
7 | Challenges for Muslim women in a postmodern world | 127 |
8 | Women and the veil: Personal responses to global process | 141 |
9 | Sojourners abroad: Migration for higher education in a post-peasant Muslim society | 160 |
10 | Two Muslim intellectuals in the postmodern West: Akbar Ahmed and Ziauddin Sardar | 190 |
11 | Diaspora and millennium: British Pakistani global-local fabulations of the Gulf War | 213 |
Index | 237 |