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In Later Years An Abundance Of Collected Volumes On Various Aspects Of Islam Have Appeared. T His Islam Has Been Used As The Element In Common For A Wide Range Of Phenomena In A Vast Area. In This Upsurge Of Interest It Has Not Always Been Made Sufficiently Clear Whether Islam Really Supplies The Most Suitable Frame Of Reference For The Phenomena Described. Islam Is Obviously One Religion, But Could It Meaningfully Be Treated As One Culture, One Social Order, One Political Philosophy? Is The Islamic Community, The Umma, A More Coherent Entity Than, Say, Christendom? The Present Work Is A Case In Point. It Is Based On Fourteen Papers Read At An International Symposium Held In 1984 At The University Of Aarhus, Denmark. Although The Volume Allegedly Treats Islam: State And Society, It Is In Fact Divided In Three P Arts: On Contemporary Islamic Studies, Authority And The State, And Secularization: Nation-state And Modernization. From Jstor Http://www.jstor.org (dec. 10, 2012). Introduction / Ann K.s. Lambton -- The Purpose Of Contemporary Islamic Studies / Christopher Toll -- The Contemporary Debate In The Muslim World On The Definiton Of Human Rights / Jan Hjärpe -- The Socio-politic

Author

Carl Gustav Ruben Diehl; Bent Smidt Hansen; Asko Parpola; Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies

Publisher

Curzon Press; Riverdale Co.; Routledge

Published

1988

Language

EN

ISBN

9780913215166

Subjects

Religion, Islam, Political Science