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One Islam, Many Muslim Worlds - Spirituality, Identity, and Resistance across Islamic lands (Hardcover)
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One Islam, Many Muslim Worlds - Spirituality, Identity, and Resistance across Islamic lands (Hardcover)
Series: Religion and Global Politics
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By all measures, the late twentieth century was a time of dramatic
decline for the Islamic world, the Ummah, particularly its Arab
heartland. Sober Muslim voices regularly describe their current
state as the worst in the 1,400-year history of Islam. Yet,
precisely at this time of unprecedented material vulnerability,
Islam has emerged as a civilizational force strong enough to
challenge the imposition of Western, particularly American,
homogenizing power on Muslim peoples. This is the central paradox
of Islam today: at a time of such unprecedented weakness in one
sense, how has the Islamic Awakening, a broad and diverse movement
of contemporary Islamic renewal, emerged as such a resilient and
powerful transnational force and what implications does it have for
the West? In One Islam, Many Muslim Worlds Raymond W. Baker
addresses this question. Two things are clear, Baker argues:
Islam's unexpected strength in recent decades does not originate
from official political, economic, or religious institutions, nor
can it be explained by focusing exclusively on the often-criminal
assertions of violent, marginal groups. While extremists monopolize
the international press and the scholarly journals, those who live
and work in the Islamic world know that the vast majority of
Muslims reject their reckless calls to violence and look elsewhere
for guidance. Baker shows that extremists draw their energy and
support not from contributions to the reinterpretation and revival
of Islamic beliefs and practices, but from the hatreds engendered
by misguided Western policies in Islamic lands. His persuasive
analysis of the Islamic world identifies centrists as the
revitalizing force of Islam, saying that they are responsible for
constructing a modern, cohesive Islamic identity that is a force to
be reckoned with.
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