Islamic Perspectives on the New Millennium / / ed. by Virginia Hooker, Amin Saikal.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter ISEAS Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Azra, Azyumardi,; Hooker, M. B.,; Hooker, Virginia,; Khoshroo, Gholamali,; Lubis, Nur Ahmad Fadhil,; Madjid, Nurcholish,; Othman, Mohamed Aris,; Panggabean, Samsu Rizal,; Robinson, Kathryn,; Saeed, Abdullah,; Saikal, Amin,; Shboul, Ahmad,; Yasmeen, Samina,
• HerausgeberIn: Hooker, Virginia,; Saikal, Amin,
• Place / Publishing House: Singapore : : ISEAS Publishing, , [2004]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (278 p.)

The early years of the twenty-first century have been characterized by a sense of widespread anxiety and fear because of the violent activities of groups of terrorists who claim they act in the name of Islam. Their acts of terrorism, viewed by a majority in the Muslim world as crimes which must be s...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• CONTRIBUTORS
• 1. Islamic Perspectives on the New Millennium
• The New World Order
• 2. Islam and the West: Challenges and Opportunities
• 3. Indonesian Responses
• The New Age
• 4. Islam and Globalization: Arab World Perspectives
• 5. Indonesian Muslims Enter a New Age
• The Economy
• 6. Financial Activism among Indonesian Muslims
• 7. Islamic Banking and Finance: In Search of a Pragmatic Model
• The Nation-State
• 8. Political Islam in Post-Soeharto Indonesia
• 9. The Experience of the Islamic Republic of Iran
• Muslim Women
• 10. Muslim Women and Human Rights in the Middle East and South Asia: Occupying Different Spaces
• 11. Islam, Gender, and Politics in Indonesia
• Law and Knowledge
• 12. Perspectives on the Shari’a and the State: The Indonesian Debates
• 13. The Role of Muslims in the New Millennium
• Conclusion
• 14. Developing Islamic Arguments for Change through “Liberal Islam”
• GLOSSARY
• INDEX OF NAMES
• INDEX OF SUBJECTS