One Islam, Many Muslim Worlds: Spirituality, Identity, and Resistance Across Islamic Lands

By all measures, the late twentieth century was a time of dramatic decline for the Islamic world,...
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Author: Raymond William Baker
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One Islam, Many Muslim Worlds: Spirituality, Identity, and Resistance Across Islamic Lands by Baker, Raymond William

One Islam, Many Muslim Worlds: Spirituality, Identity, and Resistance Across Islamic Lands

€67,68

One Islam, Many Muslim Worlds: Spirituality, Identity, and Resistance Across Islamic Lands

€67,68
Author: Raymond William Baker
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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.


Author: Raymond William Baker
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 09/01/2015
Pages: 392
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.10w x 1.60d
ISBN: 9780199846474


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 07/01/2015 pg. 68
Booklist 07/01/2015 pg. 5
Choice 06/01/2016

About the Author

Raymond W. Baker is Professor of International Politics at Trinity College.



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