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Debates on Civilization in the Muslim World : Critical Perspectives on Islam and Modernity / edited by Lutfi Sunar. - First edition. - x, 433 pages ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-410) and index.

Content:
Debates on Civilization, Islam, and Modernity: Some Critical Perspectives on the Current Agenda / Lutfi Sunar
PART I. DEFINING AND DISCUSSING CIVILIZATION.
1. The Idea of Civilization in Eighteenth-Century Social Theory / Anthony Pagden
2. Rethinking Civilization and Its Others: Historical Stages and Social Taxonomies / Lutfi Sunar
3. The Question of Ages in Islamic Civilization: A Different Periodization / Mustafa Demirci
PART II. DEBATES ON CIVILIZATION IN THE CONTEMPORARY MUSLIM WORLD.
4. The Vision of Order and Al-'Umran as an Explanatory Concept in the Debates on Civilization / Vahdettin I,sik
5. Beyond Civilization: Pan-Islamism, Pan-Asianism, and the Revolt against the West / Cemil Aydin
6. Interaction of Concepts of Progress and Civilization in Turkish Thought / Necmettin Dogan
7. The Rise and Demise of Civilizational Thinking in Contemporary Muslim Political Thought / Halil Ibrahim Yenigun
8. Revisiting Shariati: Probing into Issues of Society and Religion / Seyed Javad Miri
9. Culture and Civilization in the Thought of Alija Izetbegovic / Mahmut Hakki Akin
10. Debating Islam, Tradition, and Modernity in Contemporary Arab-Islamic Thought: Perspectives of Hassan Hanafi and Abdallah Laroui Driss Habti -- PART III. MODERNIZATION, GLOBALIZATION, AND THE FUTURE OF THE CIVILIZATION DEBATE.
11. Erring Modernization and Development in the Muslim World / Syed Farid Alatas
12. Civilizations in an Era of Globalization: The Implications of Globalization for the Clash of Civilizations Debate / Yunus Kaya
13. Conceptualizing Civilization between Othering and Multiculturalism / Murat Cemrek
14. An Epistemological Base for a Dynamic Conception of Civilizations and Intercultural Relations / Khosrow Bagheri Noaparast

ISBN: 9780199466887 0199466882

LCCN: 2017304753

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Muslims--Intellectual life.
Civilization.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Islamic countries--Civilization.
Islamic countries.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Conference papers and proceedings.

LC Class. No.: DS35.62 / .D43 2017

Dewey Class. No.: 303.48217 SUN