Islam in process : : historical and civilizational perspectives / / edited by Johann P. Arnason, Armando Salvatore and Georg Stauth.
The articles included in this Yearbook of the Sociology of Islam are focused on two perspectives: Some link the comparative analysis of Islam to ongoing debates on the Axial Age and its role in the formation of major civilizational complexes, while others are more concerned with the historical const...
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Place / Publishing House: | Bielefeld, Germany : : Transcript,, [2015] ©2015 |
Year of Publication: | 2007 2015 |
Edition: | 1st ed. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Globaler Lokaler Islam
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (332) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter 1 Table of contents 5 Editor's note 7 Introduction 8 Chapter 1. Marshall Hodgson's Civilizational Analysis of Islam: Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives 23 Chapter 2. The Middle Period: Islamic Axiality in the Age of Afro-Eurasian Transcultural Hybridity 48 Chapter 3. Identity Formation in World Religions: A Comparative Analysis of Christianity and Islam 68 Chapter 4. The Emergence of Islam as a Case of Cultural Crystallization: Historical and Comparative Reflections 95 Chapter 5. Revolution in Early Islam: The Rise of Islam as a Constitutive Revolution 125 Chapter 6. ´Abdallah b. Salam: Egypt, Late Antiquity and Islamic Sainthood 158 Chapter 8. Islam and the Axial Age 220 Chapter 9. Islam and the Path to Modernity: Institutions of Higher Learning and Secular and Political Culture 241 Chapter 10. Global Ages, Ecumenic Empires and Prophetic Religions 258 Chapter 11. Reflexivity, Praxis, and "Spirituality": Western Islam and Beyond 279 Chapter 12. Public Spheres and Political Dynamics in Historical and Modern Muslim Societies 306 Abstracts 319 Contributors 327 Backmatter 332