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The book contributes to the current debate over Islam in a globalizing world by drawing on the contemporary and historical justice discourse within the Islamic traditions, and by examining policies and practices of global powers towards Muslim populations in the global south.
List of contents
Introduction
Part I: Reevaluating the Grounds for a Just Global Order
Chapter 1: Islamic Rational Idealism and the Universalization of Justice, Louay Safi
Chapter 2: Justice in the Qur'an: Interpretations of a Universal Value in a Globalizing World, Asma Afsaruddin
Chapter 3: Sensory Aesthetics of Belief and Unbelief in the Qur'an and its Impact on Interreligious and Intersocietal Relations, Abdulkader Tayob
Chapter 4: The Islamic Inflection of Connective Justice: Between Cosmopolitan Civility, Institutional Relationality, and Intellectual Reflexivity, Armando Salvatore
Chapter 5: Sharia and Freedom: A Reassessment, Mustafa Akyol
Chapter 6: Towards a Civilizational Ethos: From the Homo Moralis to the Homo Ethicus, Mohammed Hashas
Part II: Global Confluence in the Muslim South
Chapter 7: Muslim Intellectuals and Global Justice: A View from Southeast Asia, Khairudin Aljunied
Chapter 8: Toward a Justice-based Foreign Policy, Farid Senzai
Chapter 9: Religious Diversity in Arab Society: Myth, Conspiracy, and Reality, Mohammed Abu-Nimer
Chapter 10: Arab Authoritarianism and Western Complacency, Louay Safi
Conclusion
About the Contributors
About the author
Edited by Louay M. Safi - Contributions by Mohammed Abu-Nemir; Asma Afsaruddin; Mustafa Akyol; Khairudin Aljunied; Mohammed Hashas; Louay M. Safi; Armando Salvatore; Farid Senzai and Abdulkader Tayob
