Islam and the political discourse of modernity
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Islam and the political discourse of modernity
(International politics of the Middle East series, v. 4)
Ithaca Press, c1997
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Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto Universityグローバル専攻
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-273) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book suggests a genealogical perspective for understanding the modern politics of the so-called Islamic revival . It attempts to break the methodological deadlock resulting from the compartmentalization of all the categories in question, in particular Islam, politics and modernity. Western publications on political Islam are analysed in their multiple relations with the literature produced by Muslim authors, including Islamic revivalists, which the West purports to study. The book investigates the distinction between the Western observer and the phenomenon of Islamic politics to be explained. The study shows significant relations among different types of discourse on Islam and modernity which the conventional subject object dichotomy is only partly able to capture. The analysed discourses of the interpretive circles used to make sense of the modern politicization of Islam are rather based on shifting and interweaving subjective concerns and strategic goals. The work finally demonstrates that the popular category of political Islam obscures the historical, social and intellectual complexity of the relationship between Islam and the political discourse of modernity.
The author argues that there is no political Islam, but rather there exists a political discourse of modernity that claims universal validity and affects all interpretations of Islam. He shows the path through which the contemporary hermeneutics of Is lam is able to enrich, pluralize and consolidate the ethics of personal responsibility and public deliberation embodied by the political discourse of modernity.
Table of Contents
Introduction: A genealogical approach to 'political Islam' and political modernity Part I: Order and Discourse Communicative systems and the specialized quest for order The power of discourse and the discourse of power Public communication and frameworks of communal reference Part II: The Emergence of Transcultural Dynamics The 'West' and 'Islam': opposing essentialisms in an imbalanced game The genesis and development of 'Arab-Islamic' discourse The sociologization of the Western construction of Islam Part III: The Western Making of 'Political Islam' The linear hermeneutics of Islam 'as such' The crisis of Orientalism and the return of Islam From Islam to politics, or the reverse? Part IV: Towards an Islamic Political Discourse of Modernity? The new politics of al-sahwa al-islamiyya Is Islam the solution? Social justice and cultural heritage (turath) Thinking Islam
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