Islam, the West and the Challenges of ModernityTariq Ramadan attempts to demonstrate, using sources which draw upon Islamic thought and civilization, that Muslims can respond to contemporary challenges of modernity without betraying their identity. The book argues that Muslims, nurished by their own points of reference, can approach the modern epoch by adopting a specific social, political, and economic model that is linked to ethical values, a sense of finalities and spirituality. Rather than a modernism that tends to impose Westernization, it is a modernity that admits to the pluralism of civilizations, religions, and cultures. Table of Contents: Tariq Ramadan is a professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Oxford and a visiting professor in Identity and Citizenship at Erasmus University. He was named by TIME Magazine as one of the one hundred innovators of the twenty-first century. |
Contents
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PART TWO The Horizons of Islam Between Man and the Community | 29 |
III Economic Directives | 135 |
The Cultural Dimension of the Civilisational Face to Face | 199 |
The Cultural Dimension | 201 |
I Prometheus and Abraham | 203 |
Conclusion | 305 |
A Triple Liberation | 307 |
Appendices | 313 |
APPENDIX I The heart present in life in order to live at the heart of the Presence | 315 |
APPENDIX II The great current problems of Islam and Muslims | 319 |
APPENDIX III THe Western view on Islam is forged by a long history | 327 |
APPENDIX IV The questoin of woman in the mirror of Revelation | 335 |
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