Cultural Diversity and Islam

by Sharify-Funk, Meena; Said, Abdul Aziz; Nasr, Seyyed Hossein; Nyang, Sulayman; Khuri, Richard; al-Qadi, Wadad; Murata, Sachiko; Voll, John O.; Lee, Robert D.; Sheikholeslami, A Reza; Esack, Farid; al-Hakim, Su'ad; Satha-Anand, Chaiwat

• ISBN13: 9780761825234
• ISBN10: 0761825231
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-05-27
• Publisher: UPA

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: A Summary of Papers	p. 1
Cultural Diversity in Civilizational Perspectives	p. 15
Dynamics of Cultural Diversity and Tolerance in Islam	p. 17
Unity and Diversity in Islam and Islamic Civilization	p. 31
Continuities and Discontinuities in Islamic Perspectives on Cultural Diversity	p. 39
"True" and "False" Pluralism in the West and Islam	p. 57
Islamic Perspectives on Cultural Diversity	p. 83
The Conceptual Foundation of Cultural Diversity in Pre-Modern Islamic Civilization	p. 85
The Islamic Encounter with the Chinese Intellectual Tradition	p. 107
Pluralism and Islamic Perspectives on Cultural Diversity	p. 119
Crisis in Islamic State and Society	p. 129
Islamists as Modernizers?	p. 131
The Transformation of Iranian Political Culture: From Collectivism to Individualism	p. 149
Alternative Models of Coexistence	p. 163
Religio-Cultural Diversity: For What and With Whom? Muslim Reflections from a Post-Apartheid South Africa in the Throes of Globalization	p. 165
Personal Reflections on Intellectual Diversity and Islam: The Example of Lebanon	p. 187
Muslim Communal Nonviolent Actions: Minority Coexistence in a Non-Muslim Society	p. 195
Endnotes	p. 209
Editors' Biographical Sketches	p. 235
About the Contributors	p. 237
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