Debates on Islam and knowledge in Malaysia and Egypt : shifting worlds /
This book is a comparative study of the sociological field in two different Muslim societies: Malaysia and Egypt. It analyses the process of the production of 'knowledge' through the example of the modern 'Islamization of knowledge debate' and local empirical variations.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
RoutledgeCurzon,
2002.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- pt. I. Introductory reflections
- Science Islamized : localities and fields of knowledge
- The issues at stake
- Landscapes, variations and perceptions : contrasts between Egypt and Malaysia
- Images of intellectuals in two distinct cultures
- pt. II. Biographies and travelling ideas
- Ismaʻil Raji al-Faruqi : populism, or the guerrilla scholar?
- S.N. al-Attas : the beacon on the crest of a hill or the fusion of a military ethos with science?
- Henry Corbin, the absent centre
- Syed Hussein Alatas and sociological investigation in southeast Asia
- pt. III. Trajectories
- The Islamization of knowledge debate in Egypt : the Cairo office
- Cultural invasion
- Faith and science
- Counter images; secular responses
- Women's reactions towards Islamization in Malaysia
- Concluding remarks.