Islam, Democracy, and Cosmopolitanism - At Home and in the World

Informationen zum Autor Ali Mirsepassi is Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Sociology at the Gallatin School, New York University. He is the author of Political Islam, Iran, and the Enlightenment: Philosophies of Hope and Despair (Cambridge, 2011). Tadd Graham Fernée is an independent scholar and was a 2010 research fellow at the Jawaharlal Nehru University Institute of Advanced Studies, New Delhi, India. Klappentext This book presents a critical study of citizenship, state and globalization in societies that have been historically influenced by Islamic traditions and institutions. Zusammenfassung This book presents a critical study of citizenship! state and globalization in societies that have been historically influenced by Islamic traditions and institutions. Interrogating the work of contemporary theorists of Islamic modernity! this book explores the debate on Islam! democracy and modernity! contextualized within contemporary Muslim lifeworlds. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: citizenship, state, and globalization; 1. Ways of being in the world: religion and secularism; 2. Islams and modernities: Al-Azmeh's secular critique; 3. Talal Asad's romance with Islamism; 4. Arkoun's The Unthought in Islamic Thought; 5. An-Na'im's Islamic reformation: the reconciliation of equality of rights and the Shari'a; 6. Fatima Mernissi: 'locally' rooted cosmopolitanism; Conclusion.

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• Authors: Tadd Fernee, Tadd Graham Fernee, Tadd Graham Fernée, Ali Mirsepassi, Ali Fernee Mirsepassi, Mirsepassi Ali
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.07.2016
• EAN: 9781107645875
• ISBN: 978-1-107-64587-5
• No. of pages: 234
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Islam, Sociology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / General, Politics & government, Religious and theocratic ideologies, Islamic countries, Relating to Islamic / Muslim people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities