The Islamic World and the West: Managing Religious and Cultural Identities in the Age of Globalisation
Christoph Marcinkowski
The Islamic World and the West - perhaps no other topic is currently so often present in the headlines of the international media. This timely volume, which brings together contributions by 14 established Muslim and Western scholars, intends to present a somewhat more positive outlook in the currently rather strained relations between the Islamic world and Europe by drawing on shared values and possibilities of cooperation in various fields, such as reflected in worldview, education, economics, multiculturalism, religious dialogue, politics, as well as security issues, and it shall also contain a historical revaluation of some of those contacts. It is the first project within the framework of the recently signed Memorandum of Understanding between Switzerland's University of Fribourg and the Asia-Europe Institute (AEI) in Kuala Lumpur's University of Malaya, Malaysia's oldest university. Dr. Christoph Marcinkowski, is an award-winning scholar working interdisciplinary in Islamic and Middle Eastern, as well as Southeast Asian and Security Studies. He is currently Principal Research Fellow and Chairman of the Publications Committee at the International Institute of Advanced Islamic Studies (IAIS), a Malaysian think-tank, and concurrently Adjunct Professor at AEI.
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Contents
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Preface
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9 |
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SelfRepresentations Historical Regions
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41 |
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Islam
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85 |
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The Case of Turkey
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109 |
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Between the Muslim World and Europe? A Brief Note on the Balkan
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127 |
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Comparative
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155 |
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Reinventions of Nationhood in
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175 |
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An Approach to Development Alternatives
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205 |
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Building a Knowledge Society in the Arab World
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231 |
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Modern Approaches to Islamic Law Sayyed Ahmad KazemiMoussavi
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263 |
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Muslims and Resources for Peace in Islam Karim Douglas Crow
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289 |
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Contributors
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303 |
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