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Unveiling Traditions : Postcolonial Islam in a Polycentric World /

In Unveiling Traditions Anouar Majid issues a challenge to the West to reimagine Islam as a progressive world culture and a participant in the building of a multicultural and more egalitarian world civilization. From within the highly secularized space it inhabits, a space endemically suspicious of...

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Autor principal: Majid, Anouar, 1960-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2000.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:In Unveiling Traditions Anouar Majid issues a challenge to the West to reimagine Islam as a progressive world culture and a participant in the building of a multicultural and more egalitarian world civilization. From within the highly secularized space it inhabits, a space endemically suspicious of religion, the West must find a way, writes Majid, to embrace Islamic societies as partners in building a more inclusive and culturally diverse global community. Majid moves beyond Edward Said's unmasking of orientalism in the West to examine the intellectual assumptions that have prev.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (238 pages).
ISBN:9780822380542