Islam, globalization, and postmodernity

The outside world now reaches into even the most closeted Muslim home through the various channels of the mass media, but globalization has raised many issues. This work captures and explores some of the debate, uncertainty and conflict generated as Islam moves into the 21st century.

Islam, Globalization and Postmodernity examines the cultural responses of Muslims to the transformations, contradictions and challenges confronting contemporary Islam as it moves toward the twenty-first century. The diffusion of populations, the globalization of culture and the forces of postmodernity have shaken the world like never before. These developments have generated a debate among Muslims which, as the contributors to this volume show, will have far-reaching consequences not just for the Muslim world, but for relations between Islam and the West more generally. -- Publisher description.

Foreword / by Ernest Gellner. -- Islam in the age of postmodernity / Akbar S. Ahmed and Hastings Donnan. -- Turkish arabesk and the city: urban popular culture as spatial practice / Martin Stokes. -- Contested meanings and the politics of authenticity: the "Hosay" in Trinidad / Gustav Thaiss. -- How to be Islamic without being an Islamic state: contested models of development in Malaysia / Judith Nagata. -- The politics of Islamic fundamentalism: Iran, Tunisia and the challenge to the secular state / Fred Halliday. -- Contemporary Islamic movements in the Arab world / Abubaker A. Bagader. -- Challenges for Muslim women in a postmodern world / Anita M. Weiss. -- Women and the veil: personal responses to global process / Helen Watson. -- Sojourners abroad: migration for higher education in a post-peasant Muslim society / Richard T. Antoun. -- Two Muslim intellectuals in the postmodern West: Akbar Ahmed and Ziauddin Sardar / Tomas Gerholm. -- Diaspora and millennium: British Pakistani global-local fabulations of the Gulf War / Pnina Werbner.