Civil Society in the Muslim World : Contemporary Perspectives / edited by Amyn B. Sajoo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sajoo, Amyn B., editor.

Institute of Ismaili Studies.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islam and politics.

Islamic countries.

Political culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (359 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2024.

Place of Publication:

London : I.B. Tauris, 2002.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file HTML

Summary:

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0] licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Islamic Publications Ltd Even before the events of September 11, 2001, the global discourse on civil society - in its varied interpretations and manifestations - had caught the attention of citizens and communities right across the Muslim world from Iran, Tajikistan and Indonesia to the Maghreb. Issues of human rights, pluralism and gender equity were at the forefront of the wider quest for participatory politics. A new urgency now attends those issues: patterns of political violence and some of the responses to them, threaten to undermine the ethical legacy of Muslim civilizations and its role in the emergence of civic culture and the rule of law. This landmark survey of social and intellectual trends in diverse Muslim contexts includes contributions by Mohammed Arkoun, Shirin Akiner, Olivier Roy, Ziba Mir-Hosseini, Abdou Filali-Ansari, Ersin Kalaycioglu, Aziz Esmail, Iftikhar Malik and Tair Faradov. It will appeal not only to scholars of contemporary politics and culture, but to all those interested in the high-stakes unfolding of modernity in the Muslim world.

Contents:

Foreword by Azim Nanj. Editor's Note. About the Contributors. 1. Introduction: Civic Quests and Bequests, Amyn B. Sajoo; 2. Locating Civil Society in Islamic Contexts, Mohammed Arkoun; 3. Self, Society, Civility and Islam, Aziz Esmail; 4. Debating Women: Gender and the Public Sphere in Post-Revolutionary Iran, Ziba Mir-Hosseini; 5. Soviet Legacies and Western Aid Imperatives in the New Central Asia, Olivier Roy; 6. Prospects for Civil Society in Tajikistan, Shirin Akiner; 7. Religiosity and Civic Culture in Post-Soviet Azerbaijan: A Sociological Perspective, Tair Faradov; 8. Ethics in the Civitas, Amyn B. Sajoo; 9. State and Civil Society in Turkey:Democracy, Development and Protest, Ersin Kalaycyoglu; 10. Between Identity-Politics and Authoritarianism in Pakistan, Iftikhar H. Malik; 11. State, Society and Creed: Reflections on the Maghreb, Abdou Filali-Ansary. Bibliography; Index.

Notes:

"This volume is the culmination of a year-long project that was highlighted by a series of seminars on civil society hosted by The Institute of Ismaili Studies, beginning in November 2000. Most of the chapters evolved from papers delivered at the seminars ..."--P. xiii.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Creative Commons. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.en

ISBN:

9786612528682

9780755655335

0755655338

9781417516193

1417516194

9781282528680

1282528688

9780857711410

0857711415

9786000007164

6000007167

OCLC:

710975896