Toward New Democratic Imaginaries - İstanbul Seminars on Islam, Culture and Politics

Toward New Democratic Imaginaries - İstanbul Seminars on Islam, Culture and Politics edited by Seyla Benhabib, Volker Kaul.

This volume combines rigorous empirical and theoretical analyses with political engagement to look beyond reductive short-hands that ignore the historical evolution and varieties of Islamic doctrine and that deny the complexities of Muslim societies' encounters with modernity itself. Are Islam...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Benhabib, Seyla (Editor), Kaul, Volker (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
Edition:1st ed. 2016.
Series:Philosophy and Politics - Critical Explorations, 2
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Subjects:
Political philosophy.
Political theory.
Human rights.
Cultural heritage.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface; Giancarlo Bosetti
  • Acknowledgements; Giancarlo Bosetti
  • Introduction: “Toward New Democratic Imaginaries. Istanbul Seminars on Islam, Culture and Politics”; Seyla Benhabib
  • Part 1. Struggles Over Political Legitimacy: The Arab Spring; Al-Qaeda, and Gezi Park
  • Foreword: “Contemporary Conflicts, Islam and Political Legitimacy”; Volker Kaul
  • “The Public Visibility of Islam and the European Politics of Resentment. The Minaret-Mosques Debate” ; Nilüfer Göle
  • “Creative Destruction’: States, Identities and Legitimacy in the Arab World”; Lisa Anderson
  • “After the Arab Spring”; Michael Walzer
  • “Politics After Al-Qaeda”; Faisal Devji
  • “Genie in the Bottle: Gezi Park, Taksim Square, and the Realignment of Democracy and Space in Turkey”; İlay Romain Örs
  • “All Quiet on the Kemalist Front?” ; Murat Borovalı and Cemil Boyraz
  • “Rethinking the ‘Kurdish Question’ in Turkey: Modernity, Citizenship and Democracy”; Fuat Keyman
  • Part 2. Islam and Democracy in the Global Age
  • Foreword: “Sources of Democracy in Islam”; Volker Kaul
  • “The ‘Others’ in the Qur’an: A Hermeneutical Approach”; Nasr Abou Zayd
  • “The Epistemology of Truth in Modern Islam”; Khaled Abou El Fadl
  • “Democracy and Islam”; Irfan Ahmad
  • “Islam: the Test of Globalization”; Abdelmajid Charfi
  • “Whither Democracy? Religion, Politics and Islam”; Fred Dallmayr
  • “Rethinking Religion and Political Legitimacy Across the Islam-West Divide”; Nader Hashemi
  • “Islam and the West: Conflict, Democracy, Identity”; Akeel Bilgrami
  • Part 3. Multiculturalism, Interculturalism and Multiple Modernities
  • Foreword: “Political Models Accommodating Pluralism”; Volker Kaul
  • “Interculturalism or Multiculturalism?”; Charles Taylor
  • “Misunderstanding Cultures: Islam and the West,”; Kwame Anthony Appiah
  • “Many Cultures, one Citizenship”; Alain Touraine
  • “The Constant Mediation of Resentment and Retalitation”; Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im
  • “The Specter Haunting Multiculturalism”; Richard J. Bernstein
  • “Reflexive Pluralism”; Alessandro Ferrara
  • “The Emerging Domain of the Political”; David Rasmussen
  • Part 4. Gender, Culture and Islam
  • Foreword: “Gender Equality and Multiculturalism”; Volker Kaul
  • “Uncrossed Bridges: Islam, Feminism and Secular Democracy”; Asma Barlas
  • “Women’s Problems as a ‘Women’s Only’ Problem? Debates on Gender and Democracy in Iran”; Katajun Amirpur
  • “Women’s Rights in Muslim Societies: Lessons from the Moroccan Experience”; Nouzha Guessous
  • “The Debate on Religion, Law and Gender in Post-Revolution Tunisia”; Amel Grami
  • “Faith In Law? Diffusing Tensions Between Diversity and Equality”; Ayelet Shachar
  • Index.

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