Islam in Transition: Muslim Perspectives

Islam in Transition: Muslim Perspectives (2 ed.)

Edited by: John J. Donohue and John L. Esposito

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9/11 and continued acts of global terrorism have challenged the understanding of academic experts, policymakers, and students, Muslims and non-Muslims alike. Critical questions have been raised about Islam and Muslim politics in the modern world: Are Islam and modernity compatible? Is Islam in need of and capable of reform? What do Islam and what do Muslims have to say about globalization, democracy, human rights, women, jihad, violence, terrorism, and suicide bombing? Thoroughly revised and updated in this second edition, Islam in Transition: Muslim Perspectives responds to these and other questions, taking into account the myriad of changes and challenges that Islam and Muslims have experienced over the last twenty years. Featuring numerous contemporary writings, fifty percent of which are new to this edition, it provides a point of entry into the various and changing dynamics of Muslim discourse and politics. This volume also bridges the nineteenth and the twenty-first centuries by retaining relevant classic selections from the first edition--by a diverse group of contributors from the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Europe, and the U.S.--that offer historical background. Ideal for courses on Islam, politics in Islam, and Middle Eastern history, Islam in Transition: Muslim Perspectives, Second Edition, presents a wide range of viewpoints from a cross-section of Muslim intellectuals and religious leaders, from secular to devout, traditionalist to reformist, and moderate to extremist. The essays address key issues including Islam and nationalism, socialism, the secular state, economics, modernization, democracy, women, jihad, violence, terrorism, suicide bombing, globalization, and civilizational dialogue.

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Publisher:: Oxford University Press

Print Publication Date:: 2006

Print ISBN-13:: 9780195174304

Published online:: 2022

Current Online Version:: 2022

DOI:: 10.1093/acref/9780195174304.001.0001

eISBN:: 9780197669488

Authors

John J. Donohue, editor

John L. Esposito, editor

John J. Donohue, S.J., is Director of the Center for the Study of the Modern Arab World, St. Joseph’s University, Beirut. He is also editor of Arab Culture and Society in Change (1973) and CEMAM Reports.

John L. Esposito is Professor at and Director of the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University. He is the editor of The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World. His publications include The Islamic Threat: Myth or Reality?, Islam and Democracy (with John O. Voll), Islam, Gender, and Social Change (with Yvonne Y. Haddad), and Islam in Asia, all with Oxford University Press.

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A Criticism of Religious Thought

Adaptation of Islamic Jurisprudence to Modern Social Needs

An Islamic Response to Imperialism

A Separate Muslim State in the Subcontinent

Bio-ethics

Chronology of a Struggle for Equal Rights

Compatibility: Neither Required nor an Issue

Contemporary Arab Ideology

Democracy or Shuracracy

Dialogue Between East and West

Fatherland and Patriotism

Human History as Divine Revelation: A Dialogue

Human Procreation

India and English Government

Islam, Reason, and Civilization

Islam, Reform, and the New Arab Man

Islam: The Religion of Reason and Nature

Islam And Arab Nationalism

Islam and Secularism

Islam and the Challenge of Economic Development

Front Matter

Publishing Information

Preface

Introduction: Islam in Transition: Muslim Perspectives

Essays

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

Islam: 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

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