Islam under siege : living dangerously in a post-honor world / Akbar S. Ahmed.
"This book will help students, scholars of politics, sociology, international relations and cultural studies, and reporters as well as a more general audience interested in some of the most important issues of our time."--Jacket.
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Cambridge, UK :
Polity,
2003.
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction : God's gamble
- Islam under siege
- Return of anthropology and the final crusade ; Sense of Muslim siege
- What is going wrong?
- Is it about Islam or is it globalization? ; Post-honor world?
- Ibn Khaldun and social cohesion
- Khaldunian breakdown ; Man in the iron cage
- Failure of Muslim leadership
- Muslim leaders ; Veiled truth : women in Islam
- Searching for a Muslim ideal : inclusion
- Case study one : the scholarship of inclusion ; Inclusivists in America : Islam in Toledo, Ohio
- Searching for a Muslim ideal : exclusion
- Case study two : the scholarship of exclusion ; Exclusivists in America : the debate in Cleveland, Ohio
- Toward a global paradigm
- Challenge for Islam ; Questions for our time.