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Islamic Culture in Crisis A Reflection on Civilizations in History
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Routledge
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Routledge
257 Pages
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Routledge
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Islamic Culture in Crisis examines efforts by intellectuals and leaders in the Islamic world to adapt to what Hichem Djait calls the "incredible novelty of modernity" that has come to Europe during the past 150 years. The chapters in the work are grouped into three sections, and were written by the author over a twenty-year period. Djait describes the different meanings of modernity, the crisis... Read more
1: Islamic Culture in Crisis; 1: The Muslim World and the Shock of Modernity; 2: The Cultural Crisis in Present-Day Islam; 3: Rationalism and Humanism in Europe and Islam; 4: A Quest for Values in Islam; 2: Meeting Other Cultures; 5: Renaissance, Reforms, and Revolutions in Islam in the Last Century (1880–1980); 6: Japan Advances, the Arabs Lag Behind; 7: Chinese Thought: Another Aspect of Otherness; 3: Culture and Politics in the Arab World; 8: Islam and Politics; 9: Culture and Politics in the Twentieth-Century Arab World; 10: Chances of Democracy in the Arab World; 11: Arab-Islamic Thought and the Enlightenment; 12: The Shock Rebounds: Mutations in the World Seen from the Arab World; 13: The Force of History and Paradoxes of the Present; 4: History, Culture, Religion in the Islamic Maghreb; 14: Cultures and History in the Maghreb; 15: Islam in the Maghreb Today; Conclusion: Where is the Muslim World Going?
Biography
Hichem Djait
