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Muslims, Islams and Occidental Anxieties - Conversations about Islamophobia (Hardcover)
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Muslims, Islams and Occidental Anxieties - Conversations about Islamophobia (Hardcover)
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Muslims, Islams and Occidental Anxietiesdeconstructs our common
prejudices about both the compatibility and incompatibility of
Muslim and Western civilizations. Rather than reinforcing the
well-meant, but misinformed, opinion that the religions all
fundamentally teach identical values, we identify what seem
different distinctive Muslim "goods." Rather than offering the
facile moral choice between an Islam either "all good" or "all
bad," we argue the case for pluralism derived from Sir Isaiah
Berlin. In many cases, Islam thus represents a distinctive system
of alternative ethical and religious "goods" to those valued in the
West. In other cases, differences will remain different and
unresolved. Far from necessarily threatening Western moral and
religious identity, we explore how the alternative "goods" Islam
offers the West can enrich our notions of what constitutes "the
good," even to the extent of reviving or enlivening certain Western
religious practices. Along with instructional guidelines for
classroom use, the book in informed by the powerful and
intellectually rigorous device of investigative, empathetic
"dialogue" or "conversation," as articulated by MIT's Sherry Turkle
and Oxford's Theodore Zeldin, respectively. This form of dialogue
steers clear of the didactic mode and instead recovers the open
models of philosophical dialogues pioneered by Plato, Socrates, and
the "tolerant" Renaissance humanists, such as Erasmus and Jean
Bodin.
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