Globalization and the Muslim World: Culture, Religion, and ModernityBirgit Schaebler, Leif Stenberg 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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... scholars and intellectu- als not only in the West , but also in the Middle East and the Islamic world . Titles with the Arabic word ' awlama , the agreed neologism for " globalization , " are everywhere to be seen in catalogues of ...
... scholars and intellectu- als not only in the West , but also in the Middle East and the Islamic world . Titles with the Arabic word ' awlama , the agreed neologism for " globalization , " are everywhere to be seen in catalogues of ...
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... scholarly attention , and cannot be dismissed simply as the " tradi- tional " and " premodern . " Even if we were fortunate enough to have a widely ac- cepted definition of " modernity , " its refraction through local contexts , both ...
... scholarly attention , and cannot be dismissed simply as the " tradi- tional " and " premodern . " Even if we were fortunate enough to have a widely ac- cepted definition of " modernity , " its refraction through local contexts , both ...
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... scholar - in - residence at the Middle East Institute in Washington , D.C. In addition to numerous articles , Boroujerdi is the author of Iranian Intellectuals and the West : The Tormented Triumph of Nativism ( Syracuse University Press ) ...
... scholar - in - residence at the Middle East Institute in Washington , D.C. In addition to numerous articles , Boroujerdi is the author of Iranian Intellectuals and the West : The Tormented Triumph of Nativism ( Syracuse University Press ) ...
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... scholar at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies , Harvard University , and a fac- ulty member at the University of Erlangen , Germany , and at Georgia College and State University , USA . She is the author of Aufstande im ...
... scholar at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies , Harvard University , and a fac- ulty member at the University of Erlangen , Germany , and at Georgia College and State University , USA . She is the author of Aufstande im ...
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... scholar at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies , Harvard University , and during the academic year 1999-2000 he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institut frangais d'etudes arabes de Damas ( 1FEAD ) in Syria . Stenberg has published ...
... scholar at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies , Harvard University , and during the academic year 1999-2000 he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institut frangais d'etudes arabes de Damas ( 1FEAD ) in Syria . Stenberg has published ...
Contents
Introduction | xv |
Globalization Discussed | 1 |
Civilizing Others Global Modernity and the Local Boundaries FrenchGerman Ottoman and Arab of Savagery | 3 |
Subduing Globalization The Challenge of the Indigenization Movement | 30 |
Subjectivity Political Evaluation and Islamist Trajectories | 39 |
Islam in the West Modernity and Globalisation Revisited | 80 |
Islam Knowledge and the West The Making of a Global Islam | 93 |
Globalization Experienced and Practiced | 111 |
Globalization Migration and Identity Sudan 18002000 | 113 |
Globalization and the Internet The Malaysian Experience | 138 |
The Global Mufti | 153 |
Where Does Globalization Take Place? Opportunities and Limitations for Female Activists in Turkish Islamist NonGovernmental Organizations | 166 |
From Postmodernism to Glocalism Toward a Theoretical Understanding of Contemporary Arab Muslim Constructions of Religious Others | 188 |
The Scandal of Literalism in Hamas the IsraeliPalestinian Conflict and Beyond | 206 |
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