Tibi, Bassam, <br/><br/>
Islam between culture and politics / 
Bassam Tibi. 
 - Second edition. 
 - xxi, 334 pages ;  23 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 316-327) and index. 
<br/><br/> Introduction : Islam between culture and politics : the scope and implications --  Religion, culture and social reality : Islam as a cultural system, and its diversity --  Cultural patterns and the perception of change in Islam : a religious model for reality : the Islamic worldview --  Culture and social change : tradition and innovation in cultural analysis --  The dichotomy of structural globalisation and fragmenting cultural self-assertion : the case of Islamic civilisation --  The politicisation of religion : political Islam as a defensive-cultural response to global challenges : a social-scientific interpretation --  From religious belief to political commitment : the fundamentalist revolt against the secular order : between cultural modernity and neo-absolutism --  Social change and the potential for flexibility in Islamic law : the Shari'a between ethics and politicisation --  Institutions of learning and education in Islam : between the cultural accommodation of change, religious orthodoxy and the politics of cultural Islamisation --  Islam matters to the West! : Islam and Europe, Islam in Europe : Islamic migration between cultural assimilation, political integration and communitarian ghettoisation --  Islam and the West in the age of conflict among civilisations : the alternative of intercultural dialogue as a means of conflict resolution --  September 11, the global cultural turn and the return of the sacred in Islamic civilisation : between religious revival and the new totalitarianism of political Islam.  1.  2.  3.  4.  5.  6.  7.  8.  9.  10.  11. 
<br/><br/> "Bassam Tibi offers a radical solution to the problems faced by Islam in a rapidly changing and globalizing world. He proposes a depoliticization of the faith and the introduction of reforms to embrace secular democracy, pluralism, civil society and individual human rights. The alternative to this is the impasse of fundamentalism. The pivotal argument is that Islam is being torn between the pressure for cultural innovation and a defensive move towards the politicization of its symbols for non-religious ends."--Publisher description. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1403949891 9781403949899 1403949905 9781403949905 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2005047296 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Islam--20th century<br/>Islamic sociology<br/>Islamic civilization<br/>Islamic renewal
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BP163  / .T529 2005 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>306.697