Éditeur : Edinburgh University Press | Date & Lieu : 2009, Edinburgh |
Préface : | | | Pages : 305 |
Traduction : | ISBN : 978-0-7486-3792-8 |
Langue : Anglais | Format : 156x234 mm |
Thème : Politique |
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Table des Matières | Introduction | Identité | ||
Islam and Modernity: Key Issues and Debates |
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Islam and Modernity
Deniz Kandiyoti is a professor in the Department of Development Studies at SOAS. She holds degrees from the University of Paris, Sorbonne (B.Sc.) and the LSE, London (M.Sc. and Ph.D.). Deniz has taught and researched in universities in Turkey, the USA and Britain. Her research interests include comparative perspectives on gender, household formation and development, and Islam and state policies in the Middle East. More recently she has been working in the Central Asian republics of the former USSR on post-Soviet transitions with special reference to land rights and agrarian reform. She has done consultancy work for UNDP, ILO, UNESCO, OSCE, DFID and UNIFEM. She was also a British Council consultant for a World Bank project and edits Central Asian Survey. Dr Kandiyoti can be reached at dk1@soas.ac.uk Muhammad Khalid Masud is currently Chairman of the Council of Islamic Ideology, Islamabad, Pakistan, and was previously professor and academic director of ISIM, Leiden, The Netherlands. He has published extensively on Islamic law and on contemporary issues and trends in Muslim societies. He is the author of Shatibi’s Philosophy of Islamic Law (1995) and Iqbal’s Reconstruction of Ijtihad (2003), and co-editor of Islamic Legal Interpretation: The Muftis and their Fatwas (Harvard, 1996), Travelers in Faith, Studies on Tablighi Jamaat (2000), and Dispensing Justice in Islam, Qadis and their Judgments (2006). Dr Masud can be reached at khalid.masud@gmail.com Ebrahim Moosa is Associate Professor of Islamic Studies in the Department of Religion at Duke University and Associate Director of Research at the Duke Islamic Studies Center (DISC) . He has previously taught at Stanford University and the University of Cape Town. Moosa’s interests are focused on Islamic thought with a special interest in Islamic law, ethics, theology and studies in the medieval Muslim thinker, Abu Hamid al-Ghazali. His book Ghazali and the Poetics of Imagination received the American Academy of Religion prize for the Best First Book in the History of Religion. He also edited the last manuscript of the late Professor Fazlur Rahman, Revival and Reform in Islam: A Study of Islamic Fundamentalism. He has published extensively on modern Islamic thought and ethics. Dr Moosa can be contacted at moosa@duke.edu. Armando Salvatore is Associate Professor of Sociology of Culture and Communication at the University of Naples – L’Orientale and Senior Research Fellow (Heisenberg Fellow) at the Institute of Social Sciences, Humboldt University, Berlin, and at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, Essen. His present research explores the symbolic, political and practical nexus between religious traditions and secular formations across Eurasia in the context of the theoretical approach to ‘multiple modernities’. He also works on communication, media and the public sphere. Among his most recent books (authored, edited, and co-edited) are The Public Sphere: Liberal Modernity, Catholicism, Islam (2007), Islam in Process: Historical and Civilizational Perspectives (2006), Religion, Social Practice, and Contested Hegemonies (2005) and Public Islam and the Common Good (2004). Dr Salvatore can be reached at salvatore@fosr.net. Abdulkader Tayob is the Director of the Centre for Contemporary Islam, University of Cape Town, South Africa, and was formerly the ISIM chair at Radboud University in Nijmegen. Professor Tayob has published extensively on the history of religious movements and institutions in South Africa. He now works on Islam and public life in Africa and contemporary intellectual trends in modern Islam. His publications include the widely used Islam: A Short Introduction (Oneworld, 1999), Islam in South Africa: Mosques, Imams and Sermons (Florida University Press, 1999) and numerous articles and edited books. He is editor of the Journal for Islamic Studies (UCT). Dr Tayob can be contacted at Abdulkader. Tayob@uct.ac.za. Martin van Bruinessen is Professor of the Comparative Study of Contemporary Muslim Societies at Utrecht University and at ISIM. He is an anthropologist with a strong interest in history and politics and with extensive fi eldwork experience in Kurdistan and Indonesia. His current research is on varieties of Islamic activism in post-Suharto Indonesia. His books include Agha, Shaikh and State: The Social and Political Structures of Kurdistan (1992), Mullas, Sufi s and Heretics: The Role of Religion in Kurdish Society (2000), and the co-edited volumes Sufi sm and the ‘Modern’ in Islam (2007) and The Madrasa in Asia: Political Activism and Transnational Linkages (2008). Dr van Bruinessen can be contacted at m.vanbruinessen@uu.nl. Muhammad Qasim Zaman is Robert H. Niehaus ’77 Professor of Near Eastern Studies and Religion at Princeton University. He is the author of The Ulama in Contemporary Islam: Custodians of Change (2002), Religion and Politics under the Early Abbasids (1997) and Ashraf Ali Thanawi: Islam in Modern South Asia (2008). He is also the co-editor of Schooling Islam: The Culture and Politics of Modern Muslim Education (2007). Among his current projects is a book titled Internal Criticism and Religious Authority in Modern Islam. Dr Zaman can be reached at: mzaman@Princeton.edu Sami Zubaida is Emeritus Professor of Politics and Sociology at Birkbeck College, London University, and research associate of the London Middle East Institute at SOAS. He has held visiting posts in Cairo, Istanbul, Berkeley and Paris, and was visiting professor at the New York University Law School in 2006. His work is on religion, culture, politics and law in the Middle East, and on food and culture. His publications include Islam, the People and the State (1993, reissued in 2009), Taste of Thyme: Culinary Cultures of the Middle East (2001, co-edited with Richard Tapper) and Law and Power in the Islamic World (2003). Dr Zubaida can be contacted at s.zubaida@bbk.ac.uk. |