| Preface |
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| Acknowledgements |
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| Introduction: Islam between Culture and Politics: the Scope and Implications |
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The issues: what is political Islam? |
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Islam and cultural modernity |
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4 | (2) |
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Is semi-modernity manageable? |
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6 | (2) |
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An important distinction: globalisation and universalisation |
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8 | (3) |
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11 | (1) |
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From Islamic modernism to fundamentalism |
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12 | (1) |
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From the caliphate to the secular nation-state - and back to an Islamic order? |
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13 | (3) |
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The place of this book in my study of Islam: the formative years |
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16 | (2) |
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The cultural study of Islam |
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18 | (6) |
| Part I Religion, Culture and Development - Islam between Past and Present |
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24 | (4) |
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Religion, Culture and Social Reality: Islam as a Cultural System, and its Diversity |
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28 | (25) |
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The tension between belief and reality |
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28 | (6) |
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The symbolic clothing of reality |
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34 | (3) |
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What is Islam? Unity and diversity in historical perspective: religion between doctrine and reality |
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37 | (8) |
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Islam between divine law, everyday spirituality and a rational view of the world |
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45 | (8) |
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Cultural Patterns and the Perception of Change in Islam. A Religious Model for Reality: the Islamic Worldview |
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53 | (16) |
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The historical background: the Islamic religious view of the world, its sources and its goal |
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56 | (3) |
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The Islamic sources of the prevailing cultural patterns |
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59 | (4) |
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Islamic law (Shari'a): a social regulative or a stumbling block? |
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63 | (3) |
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The exposure to the industrial West in the modern age |
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66 | (3) |
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Culture and Social Change: Tradition and Innovation in Cultural Analysis |
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69 | (18) |
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The study of culture at the crossroads |
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70 | (2) |
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Evolution and modernisation |
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72 | (3) |
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Religious reformation and cultural innovation |
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75 | (3) |
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Who are the instigators of cultural innovations? |
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78 | (6) |
| Part II The Context: the Politicisation of Islam in the Global Age |
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84 | (3) |
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The Dichotomy of Structural Globalisation and Fragmenting Cultural Self-Assertion: the Case of Islamic Civilisation |
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87 | (29) |
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Cultural, economy and politics in the global age |
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87 | (3) |
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Islam at the crossroads: competing civilisational models for the future |
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90 | (3) |
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An interplay is not a mechanism: modernisation, culture and development |
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93 | (3) |
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Bringing culture into international studies: what is development in a global context? |
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96 | (3) |
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99 | (2) |
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Civilisation-awareness, politicisation of religion and its impact |
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101 | (1) |
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Modernisation and secularisation: religion, culture, social change and politics |
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102 | (4) |
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Is the politics of Islamic revival a spiritual mobilisation? |
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106 | (4) |
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Islam between secularisation and de-secularisation |
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110 | (3) |
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From secularisation to profanation? |
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113 | (3) |
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The Politicisation of Religion: Political Islam as a Defensive-Cultural Response to Global Challenges. A Social-Scientific Interpretation |
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116 | (15) |
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The socio-political constraints. The political revitalisation of Islam |
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119 | (7) |
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al-nizam al-Islami as a backward-looking political utopia of political Islam |
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126 | (5) |
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From Religious Belief to Political Commitment: the Fundamentalist Revolt against the Secular Order. Between Cultural Modernity and Neo-Absolutism |
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131 | (17) |
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A clear distinction: Islam is not Islamism. Cultural relativist confusions |
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132 | (4) |
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The background: the predicament with modernity |
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136 | (2) |
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138 | (3) |
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Islam and the West: a cultural revolt? |
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141 | (2) |
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143 | (3) |
| Part III The Framework: the Means of Politicisation. The Revival of the Shari'a and the Islamisation of Education |
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146 | (2) |
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Social Change and the Potential for Flexibility in Islamic Law: the Shari'a between Ethics and Politicisation |
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148 | (19) |
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Legal differences and cultural diversity |
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148 | (5) |
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The roots and patterns. Islamic law as Shari'a |
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153 | (6) |
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The reform of Islamic law and the potential for flexibility in the Islamic notion of law |
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159 | (8) |
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Institutions of Learning and Education in Islam: between the Cultural Accommodation of Change, Religious Orthodoxy and the Politics of Cultural Islamisation |
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167 | (24) |
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Learning in Islam and Islamic institutions of education |
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168 | (6) |
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The Universitas Litterarum as a European educational institution: its universalisation and incursion into the Islamic civilisation |
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174 | (5) |
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The crisis of Muslim education and the related cultural perceptions |
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179 | (9) |
| Part IV The Topicality: Islam and the West between Inter-Civilisational Dialogue and Political Antagonisation |
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188 | (3) |
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Islam Matters to the West! Islam and Europe, Islam in Europe: Islamic Migration between Cultural Assimilation, Political Integration and Communitarian Ghettoisation |
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191 | (19) |
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Islam in Europe: the Euro-Mediterranean dimension |
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192 | (3) |
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Is the global village an international system or an international society? |
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195 | (2) |
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Islam and the West in the Euro-Mediterranean region. Inherited burdens and new patterns |
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197 | (3) |
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Islam in the West: culture and politics |
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200 | (3) |
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Dialogue needs to be reason-based. The politicisation of cultural-religious beliefs leads to confrontation |
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203 | (1) |
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An urgent distinction: cultural pluralism is not communitarian multiculturalism |
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204 | (2) |
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What Islam in Europe? Conclusions |
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206 | (4) |
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Islam and the West in the Age of Conflict among Civilisations: the Alternative of Intercultural Dialogue as a Means of Conflict Resolution |
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210 | (21) |
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Why do Europeans know so little about Islam? |
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211 | (3) |
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Religion and politics in Europe and Islam |
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214 | (2) |
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Between polemics and analysis: understanding world politics and the heterogeneity of civilisations |
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216 | (2) |
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Islam: civilisational unity in cultural diversity |
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218 | (4) |
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Islam and the claim for a de-Westernisation of the world |
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222 | (2) |
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The options: head-on collision or bridge-building between the civilisations |
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224 | (2) |
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An alternative to fundamentalism in Europe: Euro-Islam as an opening for migrants |
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226 | (2) |
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Is an Islamic-Western peace of civilisations possible? Cultural dialogue without self-denial |
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228 | (3) |
| Notes |
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231 | (35) |
| Name Index |
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266 | (2) |
| Subject Index |
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