States Without Citizens: Understanding the Islamic CrisisTerrorist attacks on America and its allies and persistent violence in the Islamic world point to a crisis in Islamic society, which States without Citizens attributes to an unfulfilled quest for an Islamic renaissance. The Islamic states, whose borders were arbitrarily imposed by Western states, are beset by pervasive socioeconomic problems—authoritarian rule, economic inequities, educational shortcomings, development project failures, sexual frustration—that are being exploited by radical Islamists. Native attempts to modernize Islamic society by adopting Western ways have repeatedly foundered because they have sought to replicate the trappings of state power while neglecting their foundation in civic ethics. To mitigate the violence engendered by the Islamic crisis, the author recommends that culturally authentic institutions must be created that will instill a civic ethics of common cause and public service. |
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... religious establishment or unre- solved competition between it and advocates of modernization in the arenas of law ... religion and a civilization , its culture , and its component societies . Some years ago , Marshal Hodgson coined the ...
... religious faith . He did not consider that the further con- sequence for culture overall would be the relative absence of invention . Indeed , at the time , imagination and inventiveness were being exiled from the public life of Islamic ...
... religious ethos assimilation of secular ways of thinking and acting by accommodating the traditional religious ethos • Islamic Modernism • Islamic Activism renewal of the religious Modernization and Authenticity : Critique of Endeavors 65.
Contents
Cultures in History | 13 |
Contrast in Ethics | 27 |
Critique of Endeavors | 53 |
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