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Title:

Islam in transition : Muslim perspectives / edited by John J. Donohue, John L. Esposito.

Edition:

2nd ed.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2007

Description:

xiii, 512 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Islam--20th century.
Religious awakening--Islam.

Other Authors:

Donohue, John J.
Esposito, John L.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

Fatherland and patriotism -- An Islamic response to imperialism -- Islamic solidarity -- Islam, reason, and civilization -- The Caliphate and the bases of power -- India and English government -- The religion of reason and nature -- Patriotism, nationalism, and group spirit in Islam -- Our decline and Its causes -- Muslim unity and Arab unity -- The future of culture in Egypt -- The new renaissance -- Islam and Arab nationalism -- A separate Muslim state in the subcontinent -- Nationalism and Islam -- Socialism and Islam -- The Third Way -- The Arab personality between past and present -- A criticism of religious thought -- Islamic socialism -- Social justice in Islam -- Islam and the Socialist revolution -- The concept of Islamic socialism -- Contemporary Arab ideology -- Islam, reform, and the new Arab man -- Islam vs. marxism and capitalism -- Islam in secular India -- Islam and secularism -- Adaptation of Islamic jurisprudence to modern social needs -- The reinterpretation of Islam -- Rights and roles of woman -- The political competence of women in Islamic law -- Reforming Islam and Islamic law -- On the future of women and politics in the Arab world -- Chronology of a struggle for equal rights -- The modernist majority report -- The minority report --The Islamic veil (hijab) -- Bio-ethics -- Human procreation -- The characteristics of Islamic economics -- Islam and the challenge of economic development -- The Islamic welfare state -- The psychological role of Islam in economic development -- Political theory of Islam -- The participation of Islamists in a non-Islamic government -- Political pluralism from an Islamic perspective -- Shura and democracy -- Democracy or Shuracracy -- Why democracy, and why now? -- Tolerance and governance : a discourse on religion and democracy -- Compatibility : neither required nor an issue -- Islamic government -- The need for civilizational dialogue -- The crisis of the Arab intellectual : traditionalism or historicism? -- Islamic culture in danger -- On martyrdom (shahadat) -- Dialogue between East and West -- Reflections on Islam and the West : yesterday, today and tomorrow -- The poverty of fanaticism -- Jihad and the modern world -- Jihad in the cause of God -- The forgotten duty -- Join the caravan -- Text of fatwa urging jihad against Americans (1998) -- The covenant of the Islamic resistance movement HAMAS -- On the political utility of using armed violence -- We must think before we act : September 11 was a gift to the U.S. administration -- Islam and violence : our forgotten legacy -- Jihad -- Terrorism -- Suicide bombings and martyrdom -- The Arab world and the Muslims faced with their contradictions -- Islam and the Malay civilizational identity : tension and harmony between ethnicity and religiosity -- Islamic faith and the problem of pluralism : relations among the believers -- Reason and individual reasoning -- Human history as divine revelation : a dialogue.

ISBN:

9780195174311
0195174313 (pbk.)
9780195174311 (pbk.)
9780195174311 (pbk.) :
0195174313 (pbk.) :

OCLC:

(OCoLC)60515001

LCCN:

2005049855

Locations:

O4AX446 -- Chadwick Library

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)