Islam, Globalization and Postmodernity

by Ahmed,Akbar S.; Ahmed,Akbar S.

• ISBN13: 9780415093668
• ISBN10: 041509366X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1994-12-13
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book examines the cultural responses of Muslims to the transformations, contradictions and challenges confronting contemporary Islam as it moves towards 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.

Table of Contents

List of contributors

Preface

Foreword

Islam in the age of postmodernity

Turkish arabesk and the city: Urban popular culture as spatial practice

Contested meanings and the politics of authenticity: the `Hosay' in Trinidad

How to be Islamic without being an Islamic state: contested methods of development in Malaysia

The politics of Islamic fundamentalism: Iran, Tunisia and the challenge to the secular state

Contemporary Islamic movements in the Arab world

Challenges for Muslim women in a postmodern world

Women and the veil: personal responses to global process

Sojourners abroad: migration for higher education in a post-peasant Muslim society

Two Muslim intellectuals in the postmodern West: Akbar Ahmed and Ziaddin Sardar

Diaspora and millennium: British Pakistani global-local fabulations of the Gulf War

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