Understanding Muslim identity : rethinking fundamentalism / Gabriele Marranci.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marranci, Gabriele.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islamic fundamentalism.

Physical Description:

ix, 174 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

Summary:

Since 1979, the year of the Iranian Revolution, scholars have tried to understand what has been called Islamic fundamentalism. September 11th has certainly highlighted the urgency of understanding such a phenomenon. This book provides the reader with a challenging analysis of the discussion about Islamic fundamentalism and a new reading of the relationship between identity and fundamentalism. It confronts the widespread idea that Islamic fundamentalism is a mere reaction to, and rejection of, Western European Enlightenment and secularism in favour of an anachronistic religious scripturalism. In this timely book, Gabriele Marranci, through an ethnographically based interpretation, rejects essentialist and cultural reductionist theories, and argues that identity and emotion play a fundamental role in the formation of what the author calls 'Emotional Islam'.

Contents:

1 Introduction 1

2 Fundamentalism Debated 26

3 Reading Islamic Fundamentalism: Theories, Theorems and Kernels of Truth 51

4 The Ethos of Justice: Emotions, Feelings and Dystopia 78

5 Tawhid, Charisma and the Bund 107

6 How to be Human: The Civilised and the Civilisable 127

7 Conclusion 147.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-167) and index.

ISBN:

0230002552

9780230002555

OCLC:

260204955