VIU Lecture 2010 “Muslims and Modernity” – following discussion on the topic
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Living Islam: What It Means to Be a Muslim in Today’s World [Struggling with Modernity, Vol. 3] $55.00 The West often associates Islam with technological backwardness, religious intolerance, and a savage penal code. Is this justified. Or should the concept of “modernity” be seen in the context of the Third World and a fundamentally difference world view. This program looks at the tensions within Islamic states as they attempt to make their laws and practices compatible with the 21st Century whil… |
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Living Islam What It Means to Be a Muslim in Today’s World ; Volume 3 ; Struggling with Modernity VHS… |
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What Went Wrong?: The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East $2.59 For centuries, the world of Islam was in the forefront of human achievement — the foremost military and economic power in the world, the leader in the arts and sciences of civilization. Christian Europe was seen as an outer darkness of barbarism and unbelief from which there was nothing to learn or to fear. And then everything changed. The West won victory after victory, first on the battlefield… |
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Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity (Cultural Memory in the Present) $14.00 Opening with the provocative query “what might an anthropology of the secular look like?? this book explores the concepts, practices, and political formations of secularism, with emphasis on the major historical shifts that have shaped secular sensibilities and attitudes in the modern West and the Middle East.Talal Asad proceeds to dismantle commonly held assumptions about the secular and the… |
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Islam: Religion, History, and Civilization $5.99 The world’s leading Islamicist offers a concise introduction to this rich and diverse tradition of 1.2 billion adherents. In this informative and clear introduction to the world of Islam, Seyyed Hossein Nasr explores the following topics in depth: •What Is Islam? •The Doctrines and Beliefs of Islam •Islamic Practices and Institutions •The History of Islam •Schools of Is… |
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