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Islam and Modernity : Key Issues and Debates by Muhammad Khalid Masud, Armando Salvatore, and Martin van Bruinessen is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Recent events have focused attention on the perceived differences and tensions between the Muslim world and the modern West. As a major strand of Western public discourse has it, Islam appears resistant to internal development and remains inherently pre-modern. However Muslim societies have experienced most of the same structural changes that have impacted upon all societies: massive urbanisation, mass education, dramatically increased communication, the emergence of new types of institutions and associations, some measure of political mobilisation, and major transformations of the economy. These developments are accompanied by a wide range of social movements and by complex and varied religious and ideological debates. This textbook is a pioneering study providing an introduction to and overview of the debates and questions that have emerged regarding Islam and modernity. Key issues are selected to give readers an understanding of the complexity of the phenomenon from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. The various manifestations of modernity in Muslim life discussed include social change and the transformation of political and religious institutions, gender politics, changing

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Author

Muhammad Khalid Masud, Armando Salvatore, and Martin van Bruinessen

Publisher

Edinburgh University Press

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780748637942

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Religion, Islam