Islam and de cultural accommodation of social change
The author takes his thesis - "Crisis of Modern Islam" - in new directions in this book. A critique of Islam as a social system, the book argues that cultural patterns within Islam - especially in the areas of law, language and education - retard its capacity to accommodate rapid social change.
Print Book, English, 1991
[2nd print.]
Westview Press, Boulder, 1991
XIV, 272 p. ; 23 cm
9780813309170, 9780813384375, 0813309174, 0813384370
911323101
The cultural accommodation of change and social change; the relationship between religion and culture; culture - a motor of change, a reflection of change or a stumbling block?; ascertaining the position of Islam; social change and the resistance of the Islamic sociocultural systems; law, language and the educational system; the repoliticization of Islam as cultural system and the topicality of Islamic revivalism; asymmetries of the global society; demonstration effects and globalized intercultural communication as a structural framework for rapid social change in the Islamic Middle East.