Islam, postmodernism and other futures : a Ziauddin Sardar reader / edited by Sohail Inayatullah and Gail Boxwell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sardar, Ziauddin.

Contributor:

Inayatullah, Sohail, 1958-

Boxwell, Gail.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islam--20th century.

Islam.

Postmodernism--Religious aspects--Islam.

Postmodernism.

Islamic renewal.

Islamic civilization.

Physical Description:

vi, 374 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 2003.

Contents:

Introduction: The Other Futurist / Sohail Inayatullah, Gail Boxwell 1

I Islam

1. Rethinking Islam 27

2. Reconstructing Muslim Civilisation 35

3. Permanence and Change in Islam 48

4. The Shari'ah as a Problem-Solving Methodology 64

5. Islam and Nationalism 81

6. Paper, Printing and Compact Discs: The Making and Unmaking of Islamic Culture 89

7. Reformist Ideas and Muslim Intellectuals: The Demands of the Real World 106

II Postmodernism

8. When the Pendulum Comes to Rest 121

9. Walt Disney and the Double Victimisation of Pocahontas 127

10. The Ethical Connection: Christian-Muslim Relations in the Postmodern Age 157

11. Total Recall: Aliens, Others and Amnesia in Postmodern Thought 189

12. Bosnia and the Postmodern Embrace of Evil 214

13. Postmodern(ising) Qawwali 219

14. The End of Civilisation? 230

III Other Futures

15. The Problem of Futures Studies 247

16. Asian Cultures: Between Programmed and Desired Futures 260

17. Other Futures: Non-Western Cultures in Futures Studies 279

18. Healing the Multiple Wounds: Medicine in a Multicultural Society 299

19. Beyond Development: An Islamic Perspective 312

20. What Chaos? What Coherence? Across the River I Called 333

Ziauddin Sardar: A Working Bibliography / Gail Boxwell 350.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Ziauddin Sardar: a working bibliography": pages 350-361.

ISBN:

0745319858

074531984X

OCLC:

50868263