Islam--Resistance and Reform. / Ziauddin Sardar.
by Sardar, Ziauddin; SIRS Publishing, Inc.
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BookSeries: SIRS Enduring Issues 2003Article 30Institutions. Publisher: New Internationalist, 2002ISSN: 1522-3256;.Subject(s): Democracy -- Islamic countries | East and West | Islam -- Doctrines | Islam and state | Islamic fundamentalism | Islamic law | Jihad | Koran | Muslims -- Attitudes | Wahhabiyah | Women in IslamDDC classification: 050 Summary: "What the fateful events of 11 September [2001] reveal, more than anything else, is the discord between the true nature of Islam, as religion, culture, tradition and civilization, and its contemporary manifestation....Thus the Muslim world finds itself caught in an intense struggle between the combined forces of an aggressively secular modernity and globalization pitted against an equally aggressive traditionalism." (NEW INTERNATIONALIST) The author examines the clash between modernity and tradition in present-day Islam.
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| REF SIRS 2003 Ins28 Minority Religions and Limitations on Religious Freedom. / | REF SIRS 2003 Ins29 The First Holy War. / | REF SIRS 2003 Ins3 How to Get the Girls?. / | REF SIRS 2003 Ins30 Islam--Resistance and Reform. / | REF SIRS 2003 Ins30 Scholars Are Quietly Offering New Theories of the Koran. / | REF SIRS 2003 Ins31 Faith in America. / | REF SIRS 2003 Ins32 Extreme Devotion. / |
Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2003.
Originally Published: Islam--Resistance and Reform, May 2002; pp. 9+.
"What the fateful events of 11 September [2001] reveal, more than anything else, is the discord between the true nature of Islam, as religion, culture, tradition and civilization, and its contemporary manifestation....Thus the Muslim world finds itself caught in an intense struggle between the combined forces of an aggressively secular modernity and globalization pitted against an equally aggressive traditionalism." (NEW INTERNATIONALIST) The author examines the clash between modernity and tradition in present-day Islam.
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