Islam, Democracy, and Cosmopolitanism: At Home and in the World
Cambridge University Press
Edition: Reprint, 7/28/2016
EAN 9781107645875, ISBN10: 1107645875
Paperback, 234 pages, 22.8 x 15.2 x 1.3 cm
Language: English
This book presents a critical study of citizenship, state and globalization in societies that have been historically influenced by Islamic traditions and institutions. Interrogating the work of contemporary theorists of Islamic modernity such as Mohammed Arkoun, Abdul an-Na'im, Fatima Mernissi, Talal Asad, Saba Mahmood and Aziz Al-Azmeh, this book explores the debate on Islam, democracy and modernity, contextualized within contemporary Muslim lifeworlds. These include contemporary Turkey (following the 9/11 attacks and the onset of war in Afghanistan), multicultural France (2009–10 French burqa debate), Egypt (the 2011 Tahrir Square mass mobilizations), and India. Ali Mirsepassi and Tadd Graham Fernée critique particular counterproductive ideological conceptualizations, voicing an emerging global ethic of reconciliation. Rejecting the polarized conceptual ideals of the universal or the authentic, the authors critically reassess notions of the secular, the cosmopolitan and democracy. Raising questions that cut across the disciplines of history, anthropology, sociology and law, this study articulates a democratic politics of everyday life in modern Islamic societies.
Introduction
citizenship, state, and globalization
1. Ways of being in the world
religion and secularism
2. Islams and modernities
Al-Azmeh's secular critique
3. Talal Asad's romance with Islamism
4. Arkoun's The Unthought in Islamic Thought
5. An-Na'im's Islamic reformation
the reconciliation of equality of rights and the Shari'a
6. Fatima Mernissi
'locally' rooted cosmopolitanism
Conclusion.