ABSTRACT

This book examines the cultural responses of Muslims to the transformations, contradictions and challenges confronting contemporary Islam as it moves towards the twenty-first century. The diffusion of populations, the globalization of culture and the forces of postmodernity have shaken the world like never before. These developments have generated a debate among Muslims which, as the contributors to this volume show, will have far-reaching consequences not just for the Muslim world, but for relations between Islam and the West more generally.

chapter 2|16 pages

Turkish arabesk and the city

chapter 5|22 pages

The politics of Islamic fundamentalism

chapter 8|20 pages

Women and the veil

chapter 9|30 pages

Sojourners abroad

chapter 11|24 pages

Diaspora and millennium