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Globalization and Islamism : beyond fundamentalism / Nevzat Soguk.

By: Soguk, Nevzat.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Globalization.Publisher: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2011Description: ix, 235 p. 23 cm.ISBN: 9780742557512 (pbk.); 9780742557505 (hbk.); 9780742557529 (electronic).Other title: Globalization & Islamism [Cover title].Subject(s): Islamic fundamentalism | East and West | Islam -- Turkey -- History | Islam -- History -- Indonesia | Globalization -- Religious aspects -- Islam
Contents:
Islam, Islamism, and globalization -- Islamic globalism unveiled -- Histories untold: the irresistible charm of islamic cosmopolitanism -- Islamic intellectual legacies: modern amnesia and political philosophy -- Crossroads of global Islam and Islamism in Turkey -- Archipelagos of Islam in Indonesia -- Radical vanishing: Islam in global commonspaces.
Summary: Examines non-Arab Islamic orientations, arguing that Islam was a tolerant, pluralistic, and flexible force in the past and that the Western world is focusing on fundamentalist movements and ignoring the religion's predominant traditions, beliefs, and practices.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Islam, Islamism, and globalization -- Islamic globalism unveiled -- Histories untold: the irresistible charm of islamic cosmopolitanism -- Islamic intellectual legacies: modern amnesia and political philosophy -- Crossroads of global Islam and Islamism in Turkey -- Archipelagos of Islam in Indonesia -- Radical vanishing: Islam in global commonspaces.

Examines non-Arab Islamic orientations, arguing that Islam was a tolerant, pluralistic, and flexible force in the past and that the Western world is focusing on fundamentalist movements and ignoring the religion's predominant traditions, beliefs, and practices.

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