Modern Islamic Thinking and Activism: Dynamics in the West and in the Middle East

by Erkan Toguslu (Editor), Johan Leman (Editor)

Overview

Innovative research of 'Islam at work' in geographical and social contexts
Modern Islamic Thinking and Activism presents a series of scholarly papers in relation to Islamic thinking, activism, and politics in both the West and the Middle East. The reader will apprehend that Islam is not the monolithic religion so often depicted in the media or (earlier) in the academic world. The Islamic world is more than a uniform civilization with a set of petrified religious prescriptions and an outdated view on political and social organization. The contributions show the dynamics of 'Islam at work' in different geographical and social contexts. By treating the working of Islamic thinking and of Islamic activism on a practical level, Modern Islamic Thinking and Activism includes innovative research and fills a significant gap in existing work.

Ebook available in Open Access.
This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).

Contributors
Erkan Toğuşlu (KU Leuven), Thierry Limpens (KU Leuven), Eric Geoffroy (University of Strasbourg), Jonathan Benthall ( UCL, London) Thomas Michel (Georgetown University), Egbert Harmsen ( Leiden University), İhsan Yılmaz (Fatih University), Emilio Platti (KU Leuven), Roel Meijer (Radboud University)

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789058679994
Publisher:	Leuven University Press
Publication date:	07/29/2014
Series:	Current Issues in Islam
Pages:	214
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Erkan Toguslu is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Gülen Chair for Intercultural Studies at KU Leuven University. Johan Leman is professor emeritus of Social and Cultural Anthropology at KU Leuven and President of FOYER, a regional minorities centre in Brussels.

Table of Contents

Introduction

1 Contemporary Islamic Activism and Muslims Erkan Toguslu Johan Leman 9

Part I Modern Islamic Thinking

2 Fethullah Gülen, Tariq Ramadan and Yusuf al-Qaradawi: the pluralisation of Islamic Knowledge Erkan Toguslu 33

3 Tariq Ramadan and Abdullahi An-Na'im's Islamic gender reform in the Brussels Moroccan community Thierry Limpens 51

4 The Contribution of Sufism to the Construction of Contemporary Europe's Islam Eric Geoffroy 77

Part II Secularism, Islam and Public Sphere: Turkey and Egypt

5 Post Secularism, Post-Islamism and Islam in the Public Sphere Ihsan Yilmaz 91

6 The Arab Revolutions and Islamic Civil Society Emilio Giuseppe Platti 101

7 The Muslim Brotherhood and the Democratic Experience in Egypt Roel Meijer 127

Part III Contemporary Islamic Social Activism

8 Social Work, Poverty, Inequality and Social Safety Nets: Voluntary Welfare Organizations Jonathan Benthall 143

9 Tradition and Modernity in Social Islam: the Case of Muslim NGOs in Jordan Egbert Harmsen 161

10 Fighting Poverty with Kimse Yok Mu Thomas Michel 183

Conclusion

11 Translocality and Hybridization in Current Modern Islamic Activism Erkan Toguslu Johan Leman 197

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