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）
Ithaca, 1999
- : pbk
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"First paperback edition 1999"--T.p. verso
Bibliography: p. 255-273
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Discourse pertaining to "political Islam" and to its connection with modernization currently involves both Muslims and Westerners. This book reconstructs the development of the catch-term "political Islam" - from the original Qur'anic categorization of a "religion" to the emergence of a tendency to predicate Islam in terms of its so-called societal, and subsequently political, dimension - and shows how, by the end of the 1970s, both discourse and the "hermeneutic field" itself have become politicized, due to the emerging image of an "Islam in Movement". It looks in detail at the various discursive "circles" spanning the current "transcultural" space between "Islam" and the West, offering valuable insights for those interested in cross-cultural relations and in Islam's changing political roles.
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-sahwaal-islamiyya
- Is Islam the solution?
- Social justice and cultural heritage (turath)
- Conclusion - Thinking Islam.
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