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Islam, democracy, and cosmopolitanism, at home and in the world, Ali Mirsepassi, New York University, Tadd Graham Fernée

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Islam, democracy, and cosmopolitanism, at home and in the world, Ali Mirsepassi, New York University, Tadd Graham Fernée

Language

eng

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Islam, democracy, and cosmopolitanism

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electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

863172833

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Ali Mirsepassi, New York University, Tadd Graham Fernée

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Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks

Sub title

at home and in the world

Summary

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 such as Mohammed Arkoun, Abdul an-Na'im, Fatima Mernissi, Talal Asad, Saba Mahmood and Aziz Al-Azmeh, this book explores the debate on Islam, democracy and modernity, contextualized within contemporary Muslim lifeworlds. These include contemporary Turkey (following the 9/11 attacks and the onset of war in Afghanistan), multicultural France (2009–10 French burqa debate), Egypt (the 2011 Tahrir Square mass mobilizations), and India. Ali Mirsepassi and Tadd Graham Fernée critique particular counterproductive ideological conceptualizations, voicing an emerging global ethic of reconciliation. Rejecting the polarized conceptual ideals of the universal or the authentic, the authors critically reassess notions of the secular, the cosmopolitan and democracy. Raising questions that cut across the disciplines of history, anthropology, sociology and law, this study articulates a democratic politics of everyday life in modern Islamic societies.--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

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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