Negotiating Development In Muslim Societies

Author : Gudrun Lachenmann,Petra Dannecker
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 0739126199

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"Negotiating Development in Muslim Societies explores the negotiation processes of global development concepts such as gender equality, human rights, and poverty alleviation. It focuses on three countries that are undergoing different Islamization processes: Senegal, Sudan, and Malaysia. While much has been written about the hegemonic production and discursive struggle of development concepts globally, this book analyzes the negotiation of these development concepts locally and translocally. This comparative study examines the ways the activities of women's organizations and groups constitute new spaces by transferring and negotiating global development concepts, networking, and interactions with different local and translocal actors. Negotiating Development in Muslim Societies broadens the understanding of the relationship between gender, development, and Islam and the meanings of development in different cultural contexts in a globalizing world."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Norshahril Saat
Publisher : ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789814786997

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Islam in Southeast Asia by Norshahril Saat Pdf

"Islam in the Malay world of Southeast Asia or Islam Nusantara, as it has come to be known, had for a long time been seen as representing the more spiritual and Sufi dimension of Islam, thereby striking a balance between the exoteric and the esoteric. This image of 'the smiling face of Islam' has been disturbed during the last decades with increasing calls for the implementation of Shari’ah, conceived of in a narrow manner, intolerant discourse against non-Muslim communities, and hate speech against minority Muslims such as the Shi’ites. There has also been what some have referred to as the Salafization of Sunni Muslims in the region. The chapters of this volume are written by scholars and activists from the region who are very perceptive of such trends in Malay world Islam and promise to improve our understanding of developments that are sometimes difficult to grapple with." — Professor Syed Farid Alatas, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore

Author : Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 0674027760

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Islam and the Secular State by Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im Pdf

What should be the place of Shari‘a—Islamic religious law—in predominantly Muslim societies of the world? In this ambitious and topical book, a Muslim scholar and human rights activist envisions a positive and sustainable role for Shari‘a, based on a profound rethinking of the relationship between religion and the secular state in all societies. An-Na‘im argues that the coercive enforcement of Shari‘a by the state betrays the Qur’an’s insistence on voluntary acceptance of Islam. Just as the state should be secure from the misuse of religious authority, Shari‘a should be freed from the control of the state. State policies or legislation must be based on civic reasons accessible to citizens of all religions. Showing that throughout the history of Islam, Islam and the state have normally been separate, An-Na‘im maintains that ideas of human rights and citizenship are more consistent with Islamic principles than with claims of a supposedly Islamic state to enforce Shari‘a. In fact, he suggests, the very idea of an “Islamic state” is based on European ideas of state and law, and not Shari‘a or the Islamic tradition. Bold, pragmatic, and deeply rooted in Islamic history and theology, Islam and the Secular State offers a workable future for the place of Shari‘a in Muslim societies.

Author : Gudrun Lachenmann,Petra Dannecker
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2008-05-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780739145869

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Negotiating Development in Muslim Societies by Gudrun Lachenmann,Petra Dannecker Pdf

Negotiating Development in Muslim Societies explores the negotiation processes of global development concepts such as poverty alleviation, human rights, and gender equality. It focuses on three countries which that are undergoing different Islamisation processes: Senegal, Sudan, and Malaysia. While much has been written about the hegemonic production and discursive struggle of development concepts globally, this book analyzes the negotiation of these development concepts locally and translocally. Lachenmann and Dannecker present empirically grounded research to show that, although women are instrumentalized in different ways for the formation of an Islamic identity of a nation or group, they are at the same time important actors and agents in the processes of negotiating the meaning of development, restructuring of the public sphere, and transforming the societal gender order.

Author : Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780674261440

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Islam and the Secular State by Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im Pdf

What should be the place of Shari‘a—Islamic religious law—in predominantly Muslim societies of the world? In this ambitious and topical book, a Muslim scholar and human rights activist envisions a positive and sustainable role for Shari‘a, based on a profound rethinking of the relationship between religion and the secular state in all societies. An-Na‘im argues that the coercive enforcement of Shari‘a by the state betrays the Qur’an’s insistence on voluntary acceptance of Islam. Just as the state should be secure from the misuse of religious authority, Shari‘a should be freed from the control of the state. State policies or legislation must be based on civic reasons accessible to citizens of all religions. Showing that throughout the history of Islam, Islam and the state have normally been separate, An-Na‘im maintains that ideas of human rights and citizenship are more consistent with Islamic principles than with claims of a supposedly Islamic state to enforce Shari‘a. In fact, he suggests, the very idea of an “Islamic state” is based on European ideas of state and law, and not Shari‘a or the Islamic tradition. Bold, pragmatic, and deeply rooted in Islamic history and theology, Islam and the Secular State offers a workable future for the place of Shari‘a in Muslim societies.

Author : Roman Loimeier
Publisher : Universitätsverlag Göttingen
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Islam
ISBN : 9783863954932

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Negotiating the Religious in Contemporary Everyday Life in the “Islamic World” by Roman Loimeier Pdf

The contributions to the present volume show that the countries that are often presented in the literature as forming part of a stereotypical and seemingly monolithic “Islamic world” in fact represent considerable diversity. From Iran to Senegal, we encounter a vast array of social and religious structures, historical trajectories, political regimes and relative positions of societies and individuals. We encounter also, in many different and often unexpected ways, the individual in multiple contexts. The present volume presents perspectives on everyday life in Muslim societies beyond the spectacular. From a broad academic background in Islamic and Iranian studies, social anthropology, sociology, philosophy and history, its contributors show that everyday life as well as religious practice in countries as diverse as Senegal, Niger, Egypt, Tunisia and Iran is not informed by one single “Islamic” tradition, but rather by multiple and often surprisingly different modes of religiosity and non-religiosity.

Author : Lawrence Rosen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0226726096

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Bargaining for Reality by Lawrence Rosen Pdf

Much modern anthropology has assumed that an adequate description of any society consists of rules that inform its members' relationships and the logic that unites their cultural symbols. In this book Lawrence Rosen argues that, for the people who live in and around the Moroccan city of Sefrou, attachment to others and the terms by which they are conceived are, at their most fundamental level, subject to a constant process of negotiation. Drawing on the philosophy of speech acts as well as interpretive theory, Rosen shows how, for the people of this Muslim community, reality consists of the network of obligations formed by individuals out of a repertoire of relational possibilities whose defining terms are comprised by a set of essentially negotiable concepts. He thus demonstrates that the bonds of family, tribe, and political alliance take shape only as the bargains struck in and through the malleable terms that describe them take shape; that statements about relationship are no more true than a price mentioned in the marketplace until properly validated; that the relations between men and women, Arabs and Berbers, Muslims and Jews test the limits of interpersonal negotiation; and that the concepts of time, character, and narrative style are consonant with a view of reality as bargained-for network of obligations. Bargaining for Reality makes an important contribution to our understanding of contemporary Middle Eastern society and to the development of powerful new interpretive strategies for a wide range of social theorists. "[Rosen's] book is extremely useful for African and Middle Eastern historians, because he challenges some of our most basic ideas about the nature and force of kinship, tribe, ethnicity, and other large- and small-scale political ties."—Allan R. Meyers, International Journal of African Historical Studies "The book conveys a compelling image of Moroccan social experience and is peppered with vivid anecdotes and case histories."—Stephen William Foster, American Anthropologist

Author : Joseph A. Camilleri,Sven Schottmann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780415625265

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Culture, Religion and Conflict in Muslim Southeast Asia by Joseph A. Camilleri,Sven Schottmann Pdf

By examining the sometimes surprising and unexpected roles that culture and religion have played in mitigating or exacerbating conflicts, this book explores the cultural repertoires from which Southeast Asian political actors have drawn to negotiate the pluralism that has so long been characteristic of the region. Focusing on the dynamics of identity politics and the range of responses to the socio-political challenges of religious and ethnic pluralism, the authors assembled in this book illuminate the principal regional discourses that attempt to make sense of conflict and tensions. They examine local notions of "dialogue," "reconciliation," "civility" and "conflict resolution" and show how varying interpretations of these terms have informed the responses of different social actors across Southeast Asia to the challenges of conflict, culture and religion. The book demonstrates how stumbling blocks to dialogue and reconciliation can and have been overcome in different parts of Southeast Asia and identifies a range of actors who might be well placed to make useful contributions, propose remedies, and initiate action towards negotiating the region's pluralism. This book provides a much needed regional and comparative analysis that makes a significant contribution to a better understanding of the interfaces between region and politics in Southeast Asia.

Author : Rāshid Shāz
Publisher : Milli Publications
Page : 1 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Civilization, Islamic
ISBN : 9788187856054

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Islam, Negotiating the Future by Rāshid Shāz Pdf

Author : Wai Weng Hew
Publisher : Nias Monographs
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8776942104

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Chinese Ways of Being Muslim by Wai Weng Hew Pdf

"Many recent works on Muslim societies have pointed to the development of ‘de-culturalization’ and ‘purification’ of Islamic practices. Instead, by exploring architectural designs, preaching activities, cultural celebrations, social participations and everyday practices, this book describes and analyses the formation and contestation of Chinese Muslim cultural identities in today’s Indonesia. Chinese Muslim leaders strategically promote their unique identities by rearticulating their histories and cultivating ties with Muslims in China. Yet, their intentional mixing of Chineseness and Islam does not reflect all aspects of the multilayered and multifaceted identities of ordinary Chinese Muslims – there is not a single ‘Chinese way of being Muslim’ in Indonesia. Moreover, the assertion of Chinese identity and Islamic religiosity does not necessarily imply racial segregation and religious exclusion, but can act against them. The study thus helps us to understand better the cultural politics of Muslim and Chinese identities in Indonesia, and gives insights into the possibilities and limitations of ethnic and religious cosmopolitanism in contemporary societies." -- Provided by publisher.

Author : Mushirul Hasan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1608 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Islam
ISBN : 817304824X

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Islam in South Asia: Negotiating diversities by Mushirul Hasan Pdf

Introduction. 1. Nationalist Muslims in British India: the case of Hakim Ajmal Khan/Barbara D. Metcalf. 2. The Mahatma and the older weaver woman/Khwaja Ahmad Abbas. 3. Mahatma Gandhi and the Indian Muslims/Mohibbul Hasan. 4. Gandhi and the Muslim masses/M. Mujeeb. 5. Afghani`s Indian contacts/Aziz Ahmad. 6. Mediating the external: Pan-Islamism and Nationalist renewal/Mushirul Hasan. 7. Pan-Islam and the making of the early Indian Muslim socialist/K.H. Ansari. 8. Traditional rites and contested meanings: sectarian strife in Colonial Lucknow/Mushirul Hasan. 9. The Ahmadiyya Sect/E.W.O. Wace and G. Ahmed. 10. Notes on the Khaksar Movement/P.L. Orde, J.C. Lobb, G. Ahmed and Phillips Talbot. 11. The significance of the Dargah of Hazratbal in the socio-religious and political life of Kashmiri Muslims/Mohammad Ishaq Khan. Index. The author had set out with the intention of presenting before you as complete a picture of Indian Islam -- as it is observed, practiced and interpreted -- as it is possible for any student of social history. In the course of editing these volumes he have expanded and stretched his own understanding of Islam and its many manifestations. He has, also, in the process used and introduced a wide variety of published materials for a more nuanced understanding of history. In this volume, in particular, he seeks to explore the many different traditions within the broad sweep of Islam across the length and breadth of the subcontinent. From Pan-Islamism to Socialism, from an appeal to nationalism to an equally rousing call for Unitarian Islam, from sectarianism to Sufism, this book is an eclectic mix. The next volume in this series, the sixth and last one, shall be on partition and its aftermath. What he hoped to achieve, as the editor of this series, is to present the religious and secular identity of the Muslim communities as reflected in the literatures about them, written by them or on them. The essays included in these volumes will, enrich our understanding of the richness and variety of Islam in the subcontinent. He also hopes that they will generate interest in exploring the many more themes which may not have figured in the volumes.

Author : Mushirul Hasan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Islam
ISBN : 8188861081

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Islam in a Globalized World by Mushirul Hasan Pdf

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Author : Afzal Iqbal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036269459

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The Prophet's Diplomacy by Afzal Iqbal Pdf

Author : Roman Loimeier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1256560794

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Negotiating the Religious in Contemporary Everyday Life in the "Islamic World" by Roman Loimeier Pdf

Author : Monique Bernards,Marjo Buitelaar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Authority
ISBN : 9042926902

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Negotiating Autonomy and Authority in Muslim Contexts by Monique Bernards,Marjo Buitelaar Pdf

The present volume contains the proceedings of a workshop that took place as part of a larger project carried out by the Groningen Research School for the Study of the Humanities (GRSSH). The framework of the overall research perspective was a study of 'the autonomy of culture and its components'. In November 2006, colleagues from various departments at the University of Groningen who work in the field of Islamic studies jointly organised a workshop on the subject of 'autonomy and Islam'. For and from each of our disciplines, i.e. anthropology, psychology, pedagogy, philology and religious studies, internationally renowned scholars were invited to participate.