Islamic Ethos and the Specter of Modernity (Anthem Middle East Studies)

Drawing on the work of Hegel, this book proposes a framework for understanding modernity in the Muslim world and analyzes the discourse of prominent Muslim thinkers and political leaders. Chapter by chapter, the book undertakes a close textual analysis of the works of Mohammad Iqbal, Abul Ala Maududi , Sayyid Qutb , Fatima Mernissi, Mehdi Haeri Yazdi, Mohammad Mojtaehd Shabestari, Mohammad Khatami, Seyyed Hussein Nasr and Mohamad Arkoun, drawing conclusions about contemporary Islamic thought with reference to some of the most significant markers of modernity. | Drawing on the work of Hegel, this book proposes a framework for understanding modernity in the Muslim world and analyzes the discourse of prominent Muslim thinkers and political leaders with reference to some of the most significant markers of modernity. This study closely examines the works of nine major Islamic thinkers in twentieth and twenty-first centuries: Mohammad Iqbal, Abul Ala Maududi , Sayyid Qutb , Fatima Mernissi, Mehdi Haeri Yazdi, Mohammad Mojtaehd Shabestari, Mohammad Khatami, Seyyed Hussein Nasr and Mohamad Arkoun. By discussing these thinkers, the book traces the genealogy of major strands of consciousness in some crucial parts of the contemporary Islamic world and their relations to significant features of the modernity, such as human and individual subjectivity and agency, freedom, domination, culture of mass democracy, human rights, women's rights, political activism and participation, economic ethos and views on forms of property ownership, as well as social and cultural pluralism. 00. 9781783084388i 01.0_pp_i_iv_Frontmatter 02.0_pp_v_vi_Contents 03.0_pp_vii_vii_Acknowledgments 04.0_pp_viii_viii_A_Note_on_Transliteration 05.0_pp_ix_xx_Introduction 06.0_pp_1_56_Sir_Muhammad_Iqbal_The_Dialectician_of_Muslim_Authenticity 07.0_pp_57_92_Sayyid_Abul_Ala_Maududi_A_Theorist_of_Disciplinary_Patriarchal_State 08.0_pp_93_114_An_Islamic_Totality_in_the_Ideology_of_Sayyid_Qutb 09.0_pp_115_140_Fatima_Mernissi_Women_Islam_Modernity_and_Democracy 10.0_pp_141_160_Mehdi_Haeri_Yazdi_and_the_Discourse_of_Modernity 11.0_pp_161_178_Postrevolutionary_Islamic_Modernity_in_Iran_The_Intersubjective_Hermeneutics_of_Mohamad_Mojtahed_Sha 12.0_pp_179_198_Religious_Modernity_in_Iran_Dilemmas_of_Islamic_Democracy_in_the_Discourse_of_Mohammad_Khatami 13.0_pp_199_232_Seyyed_Hossein_Nasr_An_Islamic_Romantic 14.0_pp_233_264_Mohammed_Arkoun_and_the_Idea_of_Liberal_Democracy_in_Muslim_Lands 15.0_pp_265_272_Conclusion 16.0_pp_273_278_Bibliography 17.0_pp_279_285_Index Drawing on the work of Hegel, Islamic Ethos and the Specter of Modernity proposes a framework for understanding modernity in the Muslim world and analyzes the discourse of prominent Muslim thinkers and political leaders. Chapter by chapter, the book undertakes a close textual analysis of the works of Mohammad Iqbal, Abul Ala Maududi, Sayyid Qutb, Fatima Mernissi, Mehdi Haeri Yazdi, Mohammad Mojtaehd Shabestari, Mohammad Khatami, Seyyed Hussein Nasr and Mohamad Arkoun, drawing conclusions about contemporary Islamic thought with reference to some of the most significant markers of modernity