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Cultural diversity and Islam / edited by Abdul Aziz Said, Meena Sharify-Funk.

Contributor(s): Said, Abdul Aziz | Sharify-Funk, Meena
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, 2003Description: vii, 240 pages ; 22 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0761825231 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0761825223 (cloth : alk. paper)Subject(s): Islamic sociology | Islam and culture | Multiculturalism -- Religious aspects -- IslamDDC classification: 297.2/7 LOC classification: BP173.25 | .C85 2003Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Dynamics of cultural diversity and tolerance in Islam / Abdul Aziz Said and Meena Sharify-Funk -- Unity and diversity in Islam and Islamic civilization / Seyyed Hossein Nasr -- Continuities and discontinuities in Islamic perspectives on cultural diversity / Sulayman S. Nyang -- "True" and "false" pluralism in the West and Islam / Richard K. Khuri -- The conceptual foundation of cultural diversity in pre-modern Islamic civilization / Wadad al-Qadi -- The Islamic encounter with the Chinese intellectual tradition / Sachiko Murata -- Pluralism and Islamic perspectives on cultural diversity / John O. Voll -- Islamists as modernizers? / Robert D. Lee -- The transformation of Iranian political culture: from collectivism to individualism / A. Reza Sheikholeslami -- Religio-cultural diversity: for what and with whom? Muslim reflections from a postapartheid South Africa in the throes of globalization / Farid Esack -- Personal reflections on intellectual diversity and Islam: the example of Lebanon / Suʼad al-Hakim -- Muslim communal nonviolent actions: minority coexistence in a non-Muslim society / Chaiwat Satha-Anand (Qader Muheideen).

Includes bibliographical references.

Dynamics of cultural diversity and tolerance in Islam / Abdul Aziz Said and Meena Sharify-Funk -- Unity and diversity in Islam and Islamic civilization / Seyyed Hossein Nasr -- Continuities and discontinuities in Islamic perspectives on cultural diversity / Sulayman S. Nyang -- "True" and "false" pluralism in the West and Islam / Richard K. Khuri -- The conceptual foundation of cultural diversity in pre-modern Islamic civilization / Wadad al-Qadi -- The Islamic encounter with the Chinese intellectual tradition / Sachiko Murata -- Pluralism and Islamic perspectives on cultural diversity / John O. Voll -- Islamists as modernizers? / Robert D. Lee -- The transformation of Iranian political culture: from collectivism to individualism / A. Reza Sheikholeslami -- Religio-cultural diversity: for what and with whom? Muslim reflections from a postapartheid South Africa in the throes of globalization / Farid Esack -- Personal reflections on intellectual diversity and Islam: the example of Lebanon / Suʼad al-Hakim -- Muslim communal nonviolent actions: minority coexistence in a non-Muslim society / Chaiwat Satha-Anand (Qader Muheideen).

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