Research Catalog

Title

Modernizing Islam : religion in the public sphere in the Middle East and Europe / John L. Esposito, François Burgat, editors.

Publication

London : Hurst & Company, c2003.

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Additional Authors

• Esposito, John L.
• Burgat, François.

Description

x, 278 p.; 22 cm.

Subject

• Islamic sociology
• Islam > Europe
• Islam > Middle East
• Islam and politics
• Islamic countries > Relations > Europe
• Europe > Relations > Islamic countries

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction : modernizing Islam and re-islamization in global perspective / John L. Esposito -- Veils and obscuring lenses / François Burgat -- The modernizing force of Islamism / Bjørn Olav Utvik -- Islam and society / John L. Esposito -- Islam and the common mortal / Fariba Adelkhah -- A return to the shariah? Egyptian judges and referring to Islam / Baudouin Dupret -- Women's Islamic activism: between self-practives and social reform efforts / Connnie Carøe Christiansen -- Islamization and education in Egypt : between politics, culture, and the market / Linda Herrera -- The growing Islamization of Europe / Oussama Cherribi -- The Holy Grail of Muslims in Western Europe : representation and their relationship with the state / Dilwar Hussain -- Muslim monorities in Europe : the silent revolution / Jocelyne Cesari

ISBN

• 1850656797
• 1850656789 (pbk)

OCLC

51568014

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library