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Description

This edited volume is a compilation of original scholarly papers on the theme of cultural diversity in Islamic thought and practice under conditions of early and late modernity, with a specific contemporary focus on the crisis of religious tolerance in the Muslim world. Particular emphasis is placed upon Islamic concepts of cultural diversity as they contrast to the traditional Western liberal approach that takes a neutral position on tolerance to cultural difference.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Acknowledgments
Chapter 2 Introduction: A Summary of Papers
Chapter 3 Cultural Diversity in Civilizational Perspectives: Dynamics of Cultural Diversity and Tolerance in Islam; Unity and Diversity in Islam and Islamic Civilization; Continuities and Discontinuities in Islamic Perspectives on Cultural Diversity; "True" a
Chapter 4 Islamic Perspectives on Cultural Diversity: The Conceptual Foundation of Cultural Diversity in Pre-Modern Islamic Civilization; The Islamic Encounter with the Chinese Intellectual Tradition; Pluralism and Islamic Perspectives on Cultural Diversity
Chapter 5 Crisis in Islamic State and Society: Islamists as Modernizers?; The Transformation of Iranian Political Culture: From Collectivism to Individualism
Chapter 6 Alternative Models of Coexistence: Religio-Cultural Diversity: For What and With Whom? Muslim Reflections form a Post-Apartheid South Africa in the Throes of Globalization; Personal Reflections on Intellectual Diversity and Islam: The Example of Le
Chapter 7 Endnotes
Chapter 8 Editors' Biographical Sketches
Chapter 9 About the Contributors

Product details

Published Jun 11 2003
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 248
ISBN 9780761825227
Imprint University Press of America
Dimensions 9 x 6 inches
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

MS
Anthology Editor

Meena Sharify-Funk

AS
Contributor

Abdul Aziz Said

SN
Contributor

Seyyed Hossein Nasr

SN
Contributor

Sulayman Nyang

RK
Contributor

Richard Khuri

WA
Contributor

Wadad al-Qadi

SM
Contributor

Sachiko Murata

JV
Contributor

John O. Voll

RL
Contributor

Robert A. Lee

AS
Contributor

A Reza Sheikholeslami

FE
Contributor

Farid Esack

SA
Contributor

Su'ad al-Hakim

CS
Contributor

Chaiwat Satha-Anand

Reviews

  • The book provides a broad and salutory awareness of Islam's complicated place in history that would serve students well in a variety of disciplines and at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Highly recommended.

    Svend White, Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy, MESA Bulletin

  • 'Cultural Diversity and Islam' raises a crucial question and offers a substantial contribution to the growing interest in Islam and its ability to coexist with other cultural identities.

    Mucahit Bilici, University of Michigan, American Journal of Islamic Social Studies

  • 'Cultural Diversity and Islam' raises a crucial question and offers a substantial contribution to the growing interest in Islam and its ability to coexist with other cultural identities.

    Mucahit Bilici, University of Michigan, American Journal of Islamic Social Studies

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