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The New Cambridge History of Islam - Vol 6

Buku terbitan Cambridge University Press tahun 2011 'The New Cambridge History of Islam Vol 6 - Muslims and Modernity Culture and Society since 1800'. Buku edited by Robert W Hefner.

ROBERT W. HEFNER is Director, Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs,and Professor of Anthropology, Boston University. His previous publications include, as editor, Making Modern Muslims: The Politics of Islamic Education in Southeast Asia (2008), Remaking Muslim Politics: Pluralism, Contestation, Democratization (2005) and, as author, Civil Islam: Muslims and Democratization in Indonesia (2000).

Folder: D cambridge islam - Cambridge History of Islam.

Contents:

Introduction - Muslims and modernity: culture and society in an age of contest and plurality

Part 1 Social Transformations
New networks and new knowledge - migrations, communications and the re-figuration of the Muslim community in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; Population, urbanization and the dialectics of globalization; The origins and early development of Islamic reform; Reform and modernism in the middle twentieth century; Islamic resurgence and its aftermath; The new trans-nationalism - globalizing Islamic movements; Muslims in the West - Europe; Muslims in the West - North America; New frontiers and conversion.

Part 2 Religion and Law
Contemporary trends in Muslim legal thought and ideology [Sami Zubaida]; A case comparison - Islamic law and the Saudi and Iranian legal systems; Beyond dhimmihood - citizenship and human rights; The 'ulama' - scholarly tradition and new public commentary; Sufism and neo Sufism.

Part 3 Political and Economic Thought
Islamic political thought; Women, family and the law - the Muslim personal status law debate and in Arab states; Culture and politics in Iran since the 1979 revolution; Modern Islam and the economy.

Part 4 Cultures, Arts and Learning
Islamic knowledge and education in the modern age; History, heritage and modernity - cities in the Muslim world between destruction and reconstruction; Islamic philosophy and science; The press and publishing; The modern art of the Middle East; Cinema and television in the Arab world; Electronic media and new Muslim publics.

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