Islam and the languages of modernity

Daedalus

Volumn 129, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 119-135

  Eickelman, Dale F ^a  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

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4. See Anthony Giddens, Modernity and Self-identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age (Cambridge, England: Polity Press, 1991), 1, 11.
5. Cited in John Keane, "The Limits of Secularism," Times Literary Supplement, 9 January 1999, 12.
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15. Samuel Huntington, "The Clash of Civilizations?" Foreign Affairs 72 (3) (Summer 1993): 22-49.
16. For comments on Huntington's argument as it applies specifically to the Muslim world, see Dale F. Eickelman, "Muslim Politics: The Prospects for Democracy in North Africa and the Middle East," in Islam, Democracy, and the State in North Africa, ed. John Entelis (Bloomington and Indianapolis, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1997), 35-38.
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18. On the permeability of the boundaries of Muslim civilization, see Paul Wheatley, The Places Where Men Pray Together: Cities in Islamic Lands, 7th-10th Centuries (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, in press).
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20. Shmuel Eisenstadt, Japanese Civilization: A Comparative View (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997).
21. See Taylor, "Modernity and the Rise of the Public Sphere," 218-219.
22. See Dale F. Eickelman and James Piscatori, Muslim Politics (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1996), 5-11.
23. Dominique Colas, Civil Society and Fanaticism: Conjoined Histories, trans. Amy Jacobs (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1997).
24. Keane, "The Limits of Secularism," 12.
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27. UNESCO, Statistical Yearbook, 1998 (Latham, Md.: UNESCO Publishing and Bernan Press, 1998), table 3.7.
28. Dale F. Eickelman and Jon Anderson, "Print, Islam, and the Prospects for Civic Pluralism: New Religious Writings and Their Audiences," Journal of Islamic Studies 8 (1) (January 1997): 6.
29. Muhammad Shahrur, al-Kitab wa-l-Qur'an: Qira'a mu'asira (The Book and the Qur'an: A Contemporary Reading) (Beirut: Sharikat al-Matbu'at li-l-Tawzi' wa-l-Nashr, 1992);
30. Shahrur, Dirasat Islamiya al-mu'asira fi-l-dawla wa-l-mujtama'a (Contemporary Islamic Studies on State and Society) (Damascus: al-Ahali li-l-Taba'a wa-l-Nashr, 1994);
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32. and Shahrur, Mashru' mithaq al-'amal al-Islami (Proposal for a Charter on Islamic [Political] Practice) (Damascus: privately printed, 1999).
33. The best representation of Shahrur's views in English is Shahrur, "The Divine Text and Pluralism in Muslim Societies," Muslim Politics Report 14 (July-August 1997), and various commentaries posted on 〈http://islam21.org〉.
34. Shahrur, al-Kitab wa-l-Qur'an, 29.
35. Shahrur, Dirasat Islamiya, 23. As popular as Shahrur's views are in some circles, some conservative Muslims argue that he underestimates the ability of madrasa-trained religious scholars to adapt their version of authoritative religious learning to new contexts. However, most observers agree that madrasa-trained scholars are losing their audience and former authority.
36. Shahrur, Dirasat Islamiya, 23. Ibid.
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38. See John F. Burns, "Arab TV Gets a New Slant: Newscasts Without Censorship," New York Times, 4 July 1999, A1, 6.
39. Bülent Aras, "Turkish Islam's Moderate Face," Middle East Quarterly 5 (3) (September 1998): 23-30;
40. Eickelman, "Inside the Islamic Reformation."
41. 〈http://www.nesil.com.tr〉.
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46. Maimuna Huq, "From Piety to Romance: Islam-Oriented Texts in Bangladesh," in New Media in the Muslim World: The Emerging Public Sphere, ed. Dale F. Eickelman and Jon Anderson (Bloomington and Indianapolis, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1999), 133-161.
47. Eisenstadt, Japanese Civilization, 396-426.
48. Armando Salvatore, Islam and the Political Discourse of Modernity (Reading, England: Ithaca Press, 1997), 55-56;
49. Salvatore, "Staging Virtue: The Disembodiment of Self-Correctness and the Making of Islam as a Public Norm," Yearbook of the Sociology of Islam 1 (1998): 87-119.
50. Robert W. Hefner, "Multiple Modernities: Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism in a Globalizing Age," Annual Review of Anthropology 27 (1998): 92.
51. Ernest Gellner, Nations and Nationalism (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1983), 28-29.
52. Hasan al-Turabi, "The Islamic State," in Voices of Resurgent Islam, ed. John L. Esposito (New York: Oxford University Press, 1983), 245.
53. Frank E. Vogel, Islamic Law and Legal System: Studies of Saudi Arabia (Leiden: Brill, in press).
54. See also John R. Bowen, "Legal Reasoning and Public Discourse in Indonesian Islam," in Eickelman and Anderson, eds., New Media in the Muslim World, 80-105.