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Orientalists, Islamists and the Global Public Sphere - A Genealogy of the Modern Essentialist Image of Islam (Paperback)
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Orientalists, Islamists and the Global Public Sphere - A Genealogy of the Modern Essentialist Image of Islam (Paperback)
Series: Comparative Islamic Studies
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In light of the ongoing public debate that focuses on differences
between Islam and the West, this book suggests a change of
perspective. It departs from the observation that both western
Orientalists and Islamist activists have defined Islam similarly as
an all-encompassing religious, political and social system. In
shifting from differences to similarities, it leaves behind the
increasingly circular debate about the true nature of Islam in
which the Muslim religion has been represented either as
intrinsically hostile to or as principally compatible with modern
culture. Instead, it associates the evolution of a particularly
essentialist image of Islam with a complex process of cross-cutting
(self)-interpretations of Muslim and Western societies within an
emerging global public sphere. Putting its focus on the life and
work of a number of paradigmatic individuals, the book investigates
the intellectual encounters and discursive interdependencies among
western and Muslim intellectuals. In a historical genealogy it
deconstructs the essentialist image of Islam in uncovering its
conceptual foundations in the modern transformation of European and
Muslim societies from the nineteenth century onwards. Thereby, the
changing infrastructure of the global public sphere has facilitated
the gradual popularization, trivialization, and dissemination of a
previously elitist discourse on Islam and modernity. In this way,
the idea of Islam as an all-encompassing system has been turned
into accepted knowledge in the Western and Muslim worlds alike.
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