One Islam Many Muslim Worlds Spirituality Identity and Resistance across Islamic Lands 1st Edition by Raymond William Baker ISBN 9780199846474 0199846474

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ISBN 10: 0199846474

ISBN 13: 9780199846474

Author: Raymond William Baker

By all measures, the late twentieth century was a time of dramatic decline for the Islamic world, the Ummah, particularly its Arab heartland. Sober Muslim voices regularly describe their current state as the worst in the 1,400-year history of Islam. Yet, precisely at this time of unprecedented material vulnerability, Islam has emerged as a civilizational force strong enough to challenge the imposition of Western, particularly American, homogenizing power on Muslim peoples. This is the central paradox of Islam today: at a time of such unprecedented weakness in one sense, how has the Islamic Awakening, a broad and diverse movement of contemporary Islamic renewal, emerged as such a resilient and powerful transnational force and what implications does it have for the West? In One Islam, Many Muslims Worlds Raymond W. Baker addresses this question.

Two things are clear, Baker argues: Islam’s unexpected strength in recent decades does not originate from official political, economic, or religious institutions, nor can it be explained by focusing exclusively on the often-criminal assertions of violent, marginal groups. While extremists monopolize the international press and the scholarly journals, those who live and work in the Islamic world know that the vast majority of Muslims reject their reckless calls to violence and look elsewhere for guidance. Baker shows that extremists draw their energy and support not from contributions to the reinterpretation and revival of Islamic beliefs and practices, but from the hatreds engendered by misguided Western policies in Islamic lands. His persuasive analysis of the Islamic world identifies centrists as the revitalizing force of Islam, saying that they are responsible for constructing a modern, cohesive Islamic identity that is a force to be reckoned with.

Table of contents: 

Acknowledgments
Note on Style and Conventions
1. The Mystery of Islam’s Strength
2. Oases of Resistance and Reform
3. Guidance from the Center
4. Heralds of Renewal
5. Ibn Battuta and Medieval Pathways
6. Fahmi Huwaidi and Contemporary Networks
7. God’s Signs for Democracy in Islam
8. The Islamist Imaginary
9. The Epochal Story of Islam and the Common People
10. The “River of Life”
Glossary
Notes
Index

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