1st Edition

Islam in the Era of Globalization Muslim Attitudes towards Modernity and Identity

Edited By Johan Meuleman Copyright 2002
    432 Pages
    by Routledge

    422 Pages
    by Routledge

    Globalization, modernity and identity are fundamental issues in contemporary Islam and Islamic Studies. This collection of essays reflects the wide diversity that characterises contemporary Islamic Studies. The case studies cover regions stretching from China and Southeast Asia to diaspora communities in the Caribbean and Tajikistan. There is significant participation of intellectual voices from all areas concerned, providing a real contribution to the academic exchange between the Muslim and the Euro-American worlds.

    Acknowledgements, Note on References, The Contributors, Introduction, Part II: Globalization, 1. SOUTH-EAST ASIAN ISLAM AND THE GLOBALIZATION PROCESS, 2. GLOBALIZATION OF INDONESIAN MUSLIM DISCOURSE, 3. THE INDONESIAN ARCHIPELAGO FROM 1913 TO 2013, 4. ISLAM IN BRUNEI DARUSSALAM AND GLOBAL ISLAM, 5. FATWAS AS A UNIFYING FACTOR IN INDONESIAN HISTORY, Part II: Modernization, 6. MODERNITY AND THE DISENCHANTMENT OF LIFE, 7. PAKISTAN, 8. MUSLIM FEMINISTS IN WESTERN ACADEMIA, 9. IS ISLAM A HELP OR HINDRANCE TO WOMEN'S DEVELOPMENT?, 10. MUSLIM VIEWS ON POPULATION, Part III: Identity, 11. THE MULLA AND THE STATE, 12. RELIGIOUS IDENTITY AND MASS EDUCATION, 13. SEEKING KNOWLEDGE UNTO CHINA, 14. THE INSTITUT AGAMA ISLAM NEGERI AT THE CROSSROADS, 15. THE INTERACTION OF RELIGION AND STATE IN INDONESIA, 16. THE 'ULMA', THE GOVERNMENT, AND SOCIETY IN MODERN INDONESIA, 17. CONTEMPORARY SOUTH-EAST ASIAN MUSLIM INTELLECTUALS, 18. BETWEEN UMMAH AND HOME COUNTRY, Glossary, Bibliography, Index

    Biography

    Johan Meuleman^n is a lecturer at the University of Leiden, a research fellow of the Leiden-based International Institute of Asian Studies, a professor by special appointment of Islamic History at IAIN Syarif Hidayatullah, Jakarta and the president of the Islamic University of Europe Foundation int he Netherlands.

    'It is a significant contribution to the debate on the compatibility and relationship of Islam with the topoi of globalization, modernity, and identity, and it is a necessary item in the shelf of any library and indeed for all those interested in informed discourse on how religion continues to defy the thesis of modern secularism which predicts the recession of religion to the background or the private sphere in an increasingly globalized world.' - Amidu Olalekan Sanni; Journal of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 19, 2010, pp. 397-400.