Summer Read: Islamic Thought in the Twentieth Century
Guantánamo Comes to Define U.S. to Muslims
By SOMINI SENGUPTA and SALMAN MASOOD
For many Muslims, accusations of abuses at Guantánamo Bay
confirm the low regard in which they believe the U.S. holds
them.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/21/international/asia/21gitmo.html?th&emc=th
OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR
Islam Can Vote, if We Let It
By SAAD EDDIN IBRAHIM
Westerners should not be dismayed at the thought of
allowing religious parties a role in the emerging political
structures of the Arab world.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/21/opinion/21ibrahim.html?th&emc=th
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I have had the good fortune to come upon a book which looks to be an excellent introduction to what has been going on in the most diverse Muslim world with which our national leaders seem bent on opening up a new holy war. Islamic Thought in the Twentieth Century, edited by Suha Taij-Farouki and Basheer M. Nafi, L.B. Tauris, London/New York (2004) contains 11 essays mainly by British and American field experts on various aspects of Muslim thought during the transitional period of the past century (and previously) that looks most informative for us amateurs in such things.
A paragraph chosen at random by the editors introduction:
"But the difference between the Western and the Islamic experience of the modern is significant. While modern changes were intrinsic to Western historical development, they were largely seen by Muslims as alien and enforced. Intellectual and social resistance to modern chants, which are still visible in Western societies, were sometimes -- and remain -- pronounced and powerful to the Muslim world. The Muslim perspective on the modern was fundamentally different in another way, for even when modern systems, institutions and instruments were welcomed, it did not escape the Muslim collective consciousness that they were articulated in foreign languages and were premised on foreign values. Muslim peoples' relation to the modern was moreover complicated by the imperialist project, and the role that the imperialist administrations played in the process of change in Muslim societies."
Book Description
This book provides in-depth discussions of Islamic thought across the twentieth century, encompassing the breadth of self-expression in Muslim communities world-wide. It explores key themes in modern Islamic thinking, including the social origins and ideological underpinnings of the late nineteenth- early twentieth-century Islamic reformist project, nationalism in the Muslim world, Islamist attitudes towards democracy, the science of Islamic economics, Islamist notions of family and the role of women, Muslim perceptions and constructions of the West, and aspects of Muslim thinking on Christians and Jews.
Table of Contents
Introduction--Suha Taji-Farouki & Basheer Nafi * The Rise of Islamic Reformist Thought and its Challenge to Traditional Islam--Basheer Nafi * The Diversity of Islamic Thought: Towards a Typology--William Shepard * Sufi Thought and its Reconstruction--Elizabeth Sirriyeh * Nationalism and Culture in the Arab and Islamic Worlds: A Critique of Modern Scholarship--Ralph Coury * On the State, Democracy and Pluralism--Abdelwahab El-Affendi * The Development of Islamic Economics: Theory and Practice--Rodney Wilson * On Gender and the Family--Hibba Abugideiri * Reflections on the West--Jacques Waardenburg * Perceptions of Christians and Christianity--Hugh Goddard * Thinking on the Jews--Suha Taji-Farouki * Further Readings * Index
Author Biography
Suha Taji-Farouki is Lecturer in Modern Islam at the Institute of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, University of Durham, and Visiting Fellow at The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London.
Basheer M. Nafi is Reader in Islamic History at the Muslim College and Adjunct Professor of Islamic Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London.
Looks like a good read that can be done on a day by day basis with bibliographies provided with each selection.
Can be ordered for $24.50 at:
http://www.palgrave-usa.com/Catalog/product.aspx?isbn=1850437513
By SOMINI SENGUPTA and SALMAN MASOOD
For many Muslims, accusations of abuses at Guantánamo Bay
confirm the low regard in which they believe the U.S. holds
them.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/21/international/asia/21gitmo.html?th&emc=th
OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR
Islam Can Vote, if We Let It
By SAAD EDDIN IBRAHIM
Westerners should not be dismayed at the thought of
allowing religious parties a role in the emerging political
structures of the Arab world.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/21/opinion/21ibrahim.html?th&emc=th
............................................................
I have had the good fortune to come upon a book which looks to be an excellent introduction to what has been going on in the most diverse Muslim world with which our national leaders seem bent on opening up a new holy war. Islamic Thought in the Twentieth Century, edited by Suha Taij-Farouki and Basheer M. Nafi, L.B. Tauris, London/New York (2004) contains 11 essays mainly by British and American field experts on various aspects of Muslim thought during the transitional period of the past century (and previously) that looks most informative for us amateurs in such things.
A paragraph chosen at random by the editors introduction:
"But the difference between the Western and the Islamic experience of the modern is significant. While modern changes were intrinsic to Western historical development, they were largely seen by Muslims as alien and enforced. Intellectual and social resistance to modern chants, which are still visible in Western societies, were sometimes -- and remain -- pronounced and powerful to the Muslim world. The Muslim perspective on the modern was fundamentally different in another way, for even when modern systems, institutions and instruments were welcomed, it did not escape the Muslim collective consciousness that they were articulated in foreign languages and were premised on foreign values. Muslim peoples' relation to the modern was moreover complicated by the imperialist project, and the role that the imperialist administrations played in the process of change in Muslim societies."
Book Description
This book provides in-depth discussions of Islamic thought across the twentieth century, encompassing the breadth of self-expression in Muslim communities world-wide. It explores key themes in modern Islamic thinking, including the social origins and ideological underpinnings of the late nineteenth- early twentieth-century Islamic reformist project, nationalism in the Muslim world, Islamist attitudes towards democracy, the science of Islamic economics, Islamist notions of family and the role of women, Muslim perceptions and constructions of the West, and aspects of Muslim thinking on Christians and Jews.
Table of Contents
Introduction--Suha Taji-Farouki & Basheer Nafi * The Rise of Islamic Reformist Thought and its Challenge to Traditional Islam--Basheer Nafi * The Diversity of Islamic Thought: Towards a Typology--William Shepard * Sufi Thought and its Reconstruction--Elizabeth Sirriyeh * Nationalism and Culture in the Arab and Islamic Worlds: A Critique of Modern Scholarship--Ralph Coury * On the State, Democracy and Pluralism--Abdelwahab El-Affendi * The Development of Islamic Economics: Theory and Practice--Rodney Wilson * On Gender and the Family--Hibba Abugideiri * Reflections on the West--Jacques Waardenburg * Perceptions of Christians and Christianity--Hugh Goddard * Thinking on the Jews--Suha Taji-Farouki * Further Readings * Index
Author Biography
Suha Taji-Farouki is Lecturer in Modern Islam at the Institute of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, University of Durham, and Visiting Fellow at The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London.
Basheer M. Nafi is Reader in Islamic History at the Muslim College and Adjunct Professor of Islamic Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London.
Looks like a good read that can be done on a day by day basis with bibliographies provided with each selection.
Can be ordered for $24.50 at:
http://www.palgrave-usa.com/Catalog/product.aspx?isbn=1850437513
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