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Tables of Contents for Islam Between Culture and Politics
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
ix
Acknowledgements
xvi
Introduction: Islam between Culture and Politics: the Scope and Implications
1
1
The issues: what is political Islam?
1
3
Islam and cultural modernity
4
2
Is semi-modernity manageable?
6
2
An important distinction: globalisation and universalisation
8
3
Ignorance and confusion
11
1
From Islamic modernism to fundamentalism
12
1
From the caliphate to the secular nation-state - and back to an Islamic order?
13
3
The place of this book in my study of Islam: the formative years
16
2
The cultural study of Islam
18
6
Part I Religion, Culture and Development - Islam between Past and Present
Introductory remarks
24
4
Religion, Culture and Social Reality: Islam as a Cultural System, and its Diversity
28
25
The tension between belief and reality
28
6
The symbolic clothing of reality
34
3
What is Islam? Unity and diversity in historical perspective: religion between doctrine and reality
37
8
Islam between divine law, everyday spirituality and a rational view of the world
45
8
Cultural Patterns and the Perception of Change in Islam. A Religious Model for Reality: the Islamic Worldview
53
16
The historical background: the Islamic religious view of the world, its sources and its goal
56
3
The Islamic sources of the prevailing cultural patterns
59
4
Islamic law (Shari'a): a social regulative or a stumbling block?
63
3
The exposure to the industrial West in the modern age
66
3
Culture and Social Change: Tradition and Innovation in Cultural Analysis
69
18
The study of culture at the crossroads
70
2
Evolution and modernisation
72
3
Religious reformation and cultural innovation
75
3
Who are the instigators of cultural innovations?
78
6
Part II The Context: the Politicisation of Islam in the Global Age
Introductory remarks
84
3
The Dichotomy of Structural Globalisation and Fragmenting Cultural Self-Assertion: the Case of Islamic Civilisation
87
29
Cultural, economy and politics in the global age
87
3
Islam at the crossroads: competing civilisational models for the future
90
3
An interplay is not a mechanism: modernisation, culture and development
93
3
Bringing culture into international studies: what is development in a global context?
96
3
Civilisations do matter!
99
2
Civilisation-awareness, politicisation of religion and its impact
101
1
Modernisation and secularisation: religion, culture, social change and politics
102
4
Is the politics of Islamic revival a spiritual mobilisation?
106
4
Islam between secularisation and de-secularisation
110
3
From secularisation to profanation?
113
3
The Politicisation of Religion: Political Islam as a Defensive-Cultural Response to Global Challenges. A Social-Scientific Interpretation
116
15
The socio-political constraints. The political revitalisation of Islam
119
7
al-nizam al-Islami as a backward-looking political utopia of political Islam
126
5
From Religious Belief to Political Commitment: the Fundamentalist Revolt against the Secular Order. Between Cultural Modernity and Neo-Absolutism
131
17
A clear distinction: Islam is not Islamism. Cultural relativist confusions
132
4
The background: the predicament with modernity
136
2
Culture and knowledge
138
3
Islam and the West: a cultural revolt?
141
2
Conclusion
143
3
Part III The Framework: the Means of Politicisation. The Revival of the Shari'a and the Islamisation of Education
Introductory remarks
146
2
Social Change and the Potential for Flexibility in Islamic Law: the Shari'a between Ethics and Politicisation
148
19
Legal differences and cultural diversity
148
5
The roots and patterns. Islamic law as Shari'a
153
6
The reform of Islamic law and the potential for flexibility in the Islamic notion of law
159
8
Institutions of Learning and Education in Islam: between the Cultural Accommodation of Change, Religious Orthodoxy and the Politics of Cultural Islamisation
167
24
Learning in Islam and Islamic institutions of education
168
6
The Universitas Litterarum as a European educational institution: its universalisation and incursion into the Islamic civilisation
174
5
The crisis of Muslim education and the related cultural perceptions
179
9
Part IV The Topicality: Islam and the West between Inter-Civilisational Dialogue and Political Antagonisation
Introductory remarks
188
3
Islam Matters to the West! Islam and Europe, Islam in Europe: Islamic Migration between Cultural Assimilation, Political Integration and Communitarian Ghettoisation
191
19
Islam in Europe: the Euro-Mediterranean dimension
192
3
Is the global village an international system or an international society?
195
2
Islam and the West in the Euro-Mediterranean region. Inherited burdens and new patterns
197
3
Islam in the West: culture and politics
200
3
Dialogue needs to be reason-based. The politicisation of cultural-religious beliefs leads to confrontation
203
1
An urgent distinction: cultural pluralism is not communitarian multiculturalism
204
2
What Islam in Europe? Conclusions
206
4
Islam and the West in the Age of Conflict among Civilisations: the Alternative of Intercultural Dialogue as a Means of Conflict Resolution
210
21
Why do Europeans know so little about Islam?
211
3
Religion and politics in Europe and Islam
214
2
Between polemics and analysis: understanding world politics and the heterogeneity of civilisations
216
2
Islam: civilisational unity in cultural diversity
218
4
Islam and the claim for a de-Westernisation of the world
222
2
The options: head-on collision or bridge-building between the civilisations
224
2
An alternative to fundamentalism in Europe: Euro-Islam as an opening for migrants
226
2
Is an Islamic-Western peace of civilisations possible? Cultural dialogue without self-denial
228
3
Notes
231
35
Name Index
266
2
Subject Index
268
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