Modern Islamic thinking and activism dynamics in the West and in the Middle East

This book presents a series of scholarly papers in relation to Islamic thinking, activism, and politics in both the West and the Middle East. The reader will apprehend that Islam is not the monolithic religion so often depicted in the media or (earlier) in the academic world. The Islamic world is mo...

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Other Authors: Toguslu, Erkan (Editor), Leman, Johan (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leuven, Belgium Leuven University Press 2014, [2014]
Series:Current Issues in Islam
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Collection: JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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505 0 |a Introduction. Contemporary Islamic activism and Muslims / Erkan Toğuşlu and Johan Leman -- Modern Islamic thinking. Fethulla Gülen, Tariq Ramadan and Yusuf al-Qaradawi : the pluralisation of Islamic knowledge / Erkan Toğuşlu ; Tariq Ramadan and Abdullahi An-Naʼim's Islamic gender reform in the Brussels Moroccan community / Thierry Limpens ; The contribution of Sufism to the construction of contemporary Europe's Islam / Eric Geoffroy -- Secularism, Islam and public sphere : Turkey and Egypt. Post secularism, post-Islamism and Islam in the public sphere / Ihsan Yılmaz ; The Arab revolutions and Islamic civil society / Emilio Giuseppe Platti ; The Muslim Brotherhood and the democratic experience in Egypt / Roel Meijer -- Contemporary Islamic social activism. Social work, poverty, inequality and social safety nets : voluntary welfare organizations / Jonathan Benthall ; Tradition and modernity in social Islam : the case of Muslim NGOs in Jordan / Egbert Harmsen ; Fighting poverty with Kimse Yok Mu / Thomas Michel -- Conclusion. Translocality and hybridization in current modern Islamic activism / Erkan Toğuşlu and Johan Leman 
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520 |a This book presents a series of scholarly papers in relation to Islamic thinking, activism, and politics in both the West and the Middle East. The reader will apprehend that Islam is not the monolithic religion so often depicted in the media or (earlier) in the academic world. The Islamic world is more than a uniform civilization with a set of petrified religious prescriptions and an outdated view on political and social organization. The contributions show the dynamics of 'Islam at work' in different geographical and social contexts. By treating the working of Islamic thinking and of Islamic activism on a practical level, this book includes innovative research and fills a significant gap in existing work