Civil society in the Muslim world : contemporary perspectives

Author(s)

• Sajoo, Amyn B.

Bibliographic Information

Civil society in the Muslim world : contemporary perspectives

edited by Amyn B. Sajoo

I. B. Tauris, 2004

• : pbk

Note

"in association with The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London"--T.p.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-330) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Even before the events of September 11, 2001, the global discourse on civil society - in its varied interpretations and manifestations - had caught the attention of citizens and communities right across the Muslim world from Iran, Tajikistan and Indonesia to the Maghreb. Issues of human rights, pluralism and gender equity were at the forefront of the wider quest for participatory politics. A new urgency now attends those issues: patterns of political violence and some of the responses to them, threaten to undermine the ethical legacy of Muslim civilizations and its role in the emergence of civic culture and the rule of law. This landmark survey of social and intellectual trends in diverse Muslim contexts includes contributions by Mohammed Arkoun, Shirin Akiner, Olivier Roy, Ziba Mir-Hosseini, Abdou Filali-Ansari, Ersin Kalaycioglu, Aziz Esmail, Iftikhar Malik and Tair Faradov. It will appeal not only to scholars of contemporary politics and culture, but to all those interested in the high-stakes unfolding of modernity in the Muslim world.

Table of Contents

• Foreword by Azim Nanj. Editor's Note. About the Contributors. 1. Introduction: Civic Quests and Bequests, Amyn B. Sajoo
• 2. Locating Civil Society in Islamic Contexts, Mohammed Arkoun
• 3. Self, Society, Civility and Islam, Aziz Esmail
• 4. Debating Women: Gender and the Public Sphere in Post-Revolutionary Iran, Ziba Mir-Hosseini
• 5. Soviet Legacies and Western Aid Imperatives in the New Central Asia, Olivier Roy
• 6. Prospects for Civil Society in Tajikistan, Shirin Akiner
• 7. Religiosity and Civic Culture in Post-Soviet Azerbaijan: A Sociological Perspective, Tair Faradov
• 8. Ethics in the Civitas, Amyn B. Sajoo
• 9. State and Civil Society in Turkey:Democracy, Development and Protest, Ersin Kalaycyoglu
• 10. Between Identity-Politics and Authoritarianism in Pakistan, Iftikhar H. Malik
• 11. State, Society and Creed: Reflections on the Maghreb, Abdou Filali-Ansary. Bibliography
• Index.

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Details

• NCID: BA68794442
• ISBN:
  • 1850435901
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: xix, 339 p.
• Size: 22 cm
• Classification:
  • DC22 : 297.27
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Islam and civil society