Muhammad Masud / Armando Salvatore / Martin van Bruinessen (ed.)

Broschiertes Buch

Islam and Modernity

Key Issues and Debates

Herausgeber: Masud, Muhammad Khalid; Bruinessen, Martin van; Salvatore, Armando

Beschreibung

An introduction to and overview of the debates and questions emerging regarding Islam and modernity. Key issues are selected to give readers an understanding of the complexity of the phenomenon, an historical perspective, and access to several manifestations of modernity in Muslim life.

Autor

Muhammad Khalid Masud is Chairman of the Council of Islamic Ideology in Islamabad. His recent publications include the edited volumes Travellers in Faith, Studies on Tablighi Jama'at (2000), and Leading Muslim Intellectuals of Eighteenth Century India (in Urdu, 2008). Armando Salvatore is Associate Professor of Sociology of Culture and Communication at the Oriental Studies University, Naples. Among his most recent books are The Public Sphere: Liberal Modernity, Catholicism, Islam (2007), and Public Islam and the Common Good (co-edited with Dale F. Eickelman, 2004). Martin van Bruinessen is Professor of the Comparative Study of Contemporary Muslim Societies at Utrecht University. His publications include Kurdish Ethno-Nationalism versus Nation-Building States (2000), and Sufism and the 'Modern' in Islam (co-edited with Julia D. Howell, 2007).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. August 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 156mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 472g
• ISBN-13: 9780748637935
• ISBN-10: 0748637931
• Artikelnr.: 25836633