Globalization and the Muslim World: Culture, Religion, and Modernity

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Birgit Schaebler, Leif Stenberg
Syracuse University Press, 2004 - Political Science - 266 pages
Written by scholars from a range of disciplines concerned with the Middle East and Islam (history, religious studies, anthropology, sociology, political science) and covering the Muslim world extensively (from Malaysia, Turkey, Sudan, Egypt, and Israel/Palestine to Muslim communities in Europe and the United States), this important contribution to the debate on globalization sets a standard in dealing with this pervasive force in the field of Islamic and Middle Eastern studies.

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Global Modernity and the Local
3
The Challenge of the Indigenization Movement
30
Subjectivity Political Evaluation and Islamist Trajectories
39
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Birgit Schaebler is professor of West Asian history at the University of Erfurt, Germany.

Leif Stenberg is associate professor of Islamic studies at Lund University and in religious studies at Växjö University, Sweden.

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