Globalized Islam : the search for a new Ummah / by Olivier Roy.
2004
BP163 .R693 2004 (Mapit)
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Title
Globalized Islam : the search for a new Ummah / by Olivier Roy.
Author
Roy, Olivier, 1949-
ISBN
9780231134996 paperback alkaline paper
0231134991 paperback alkaline paper
9780231134989 alkaline paper
0231134983 alkaline paper
0231134991 paperback alkaline paper
9780231134989 alkaline paper
0231134983 alkaline paper
Imprint
New York : Columbia University Press, c2004.
Language
English
Description
xi, 349 p. ; 22 cm.
Call Number
BP163 .R693 2004
Dewey Decimal Classification
297.2/72
Summary
"In this exegesis of the movement of Islam beyond traditional borders and its unwitting westernization, Olivier Roy argues that Islamic revival, or "re-Islamization," results from the efforts of westernized Muslims to assert their identity in a non-Muslim context. A schism has emerged between mainstream Islamist movements in the Muslim world - including Hamas of Palestine and Hezbollah of Lebanon - and the uprooted militants who strive to establish an imaginary ummah, or Muslim community, not embedded in any particular society or territory. Roy provides a detailed comparison of these transnational movements, whether peaceful, like Tablighi Jama'at and the Islamic brotherhoods, or violent, like Al Qaeda. He shows how neofundamentalism acknowledges without nostalgia the loss of pristine cultures, constructing instead a universal religious identity that transcends the very notion of culture. Thus contemporary Islamic fundamentalism is not a single-note reaction against westernization but a product and an agent of the complex forces of globalization."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series
CERI series in comparative politics and international studies.
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Table of Contents
Introduction : Islam : a passage to the West
Post-Islamism
Muslims in the West
The triumph of the religious self
Islam in the West or the westernisation of Islam
The modernity of an archaic way of thinking : neofundamentalism
On the path to war : Bin Laden and others
Remapping the world : civilisation, religion, and strategy.
Post-Islamism
Muslims in the West
The triumph of the religious self
Islam in the West or the westernisation of Islam
The modernity of an archaic way of thinking : neofundamentalism
On the path to war : Bin Laden and others
Remapping the world : civilisation, religion, and strategy.