Islam Between Culture and Politics Book

Introduction: Islam Between Culture and Politics: The Scope and the Implications
• PART I: RELIGION, CULTURE AND DEVELOPMENT: ISLAM BETWEEN PAST AND PRESENT
• Religion, Culture and Social Reality: Islam as a Cultural System and Its Diversity
• Cultural Patterns and the Perception of Change in Islam: A Religious Model for Reality: The Islamic Worldview
• Culture and Social Change: Tradition and Innovation in Cultural Analysis
• PART TWO: THE CONTEXT: THE POLITICIZATION OF ISLAM IN THE GLOBAL AGE
• The Dichotomy of Structural Globalization and Fragmenting
• Cultural Self-Assertion: The Case of Islamic Civilization
• The Politicization of Religion: Political Islam as a Defence-Cultural Response to Global Challenges
• From Religious Belief to Political Commitment: The Fundamentalist Revolt against the Secular Order
• PART III: THE FRAMEWORK: THE MEANS OF POLITICIZATION: THE REVIVAL OF THE SHARI'S AND THE ISLAMIZATION OF EDUCATION
• Social Change and the Potential for Flexibility in Islamic Law: The Shari's
• Between Ethics and Politicisation
• Institutions of Learning and Education in Islam: Between the Cultural Accommodation of Change, Religious Orthodoxy and the Politics of Cultural Islamization
• PART IV: ISLAM AND THE WEST BETWEEN INTER-CIVILIZATIONAL DIALOGUE AND POLITICAL ANTAGONISM
• Islam Matters to the West!
• Islam and Europe, Islam in Europe: Islamic Migration between Cultural Assimilation, Political Integration and Communitarian Ghettoization
• Islam and the West in the Age of Conflict among Civilizations: The Alternative in Inter-Cultural Dialogue as a Means of Conflict Resolution
• PART V: ISLAM BETWEEN CULTURE AND POLITICS REVISITED AFTER SEPTEMBER 11 2001 AND MARCH 11 2004
• September 11, the Global Cultural Turn and the Return of the Sacred in Islamic Civilization: Between Religious Revival and the New Totalitarianism of Political Islam