Debates on Civilization in the Muslim World : Critical Perspectives on Islam and Modernity /
edited by Lutfi Sunar.
- 1st ed.
- New Delhi Oxford University Press 2017
- 433 23 cm
This volume explores the idea that there are various civilizations within so-called Western and non-Western cultures in order to contest the persevering notions of homogeneity of cultures and civilizations. This volume offers social, theoretical alternatives to the dominant, ethnocentric perspective in Western social theory vis-à-vis perspectives by predominantly Muslim scholars who invoke social theories by forgotten or unknown scholars.
Debates on Civilization, Islam, and Modernity: Some Critical Perspectives on the Current Agenda / Lutfi Sunar -- PART I. DEFINING AND DISCUSSING CIVILIZATION. 1. The Idea of Civilization in Eighteenth-Century Social Theory / Anthony Pagden -- 2. Rethinking Civilization and Its Others: Historical Stages and Social Taxonomies / Lutfi Sunar -- 3. The Question of Ages in Islamic Civilization: A Different Periodization / Mustafa Demirci -- PART II. DEBATES ON CIVILIZATION IN THE CONTEMPORARY MUSLIM WORLD. 4. The Vision of Order and Al-'Umran as an Explanatory Concept in the Debates on Civilization / Vahdettin I,sik -- 5. Beyond Civilization: Pan-Islamism, Pan-Asianism, and the Revolt against the West / Cemil Aydin -- 6. Interaction of Concepts of Progress and Civilization in Turkish Thought / Necmettin Dogan -- 7. The Rise and Demise of Civilizational Thinking in Contemporary Muslim Political Thought / Halil Ibrahim Yenigun -- 8. Revisiting Shariati: Probing into Issues of Society and Religion / Seyed Javad Miri -- 9. Culture and Civilization in the Thought of Alija Izetbegovic / Mahmut Hakki Akin -- 10. Debating Islam, Tradition, and Modernity in Contemporary Arab-Islamic Thought: Perspectives of Hassan Hanafi and Abdallah / Laroui Driss Habti -- PART III. MODERNIZATION, GLOBALIZATION, AND THE FUTURE OF THE CIVILIZATION DEBATE. 11. Erring Modernization and Development in the Muslim World / Syed Farid Alatas -- 12. Civilizations in an Era of Globalization: The Implications of Globalization for the Clash of Civilizations Debate / Yunus Kaya -- 13. Conceptualizing Civilization between Othering and Multiculturalism / Murat Cemrek -- 14. An Epistemological Base for a Dynamic Conception of Civilizations and Intercultural Relations / Khosrow Bagheri Noaparast