Debates on Civilization in the Muslim World
Critical Perspectives on Islam and Modernity
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09/12/2016
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444 pages
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9780199466887
Publication date:
09/12/2016
Hardback
444 pages
Edited by Lufti Sunar
This volume explores the idea that there are various civilizations within so-called Western and non-Western cultures in order to contest the persevering notions of homogeneity of cultures and civilizations. This volume offers social, theoretical alternatives to the dominant, ethnocentric perspective in Western social theory vis-à-vis perspectives by predominantly Muslim scholars who invoke social theories by forgotten or unknown scholars.
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Edited by Lufti Sunar
Description
Since its birth as a concept, civilization has been defined by an encounter with the ‘other’. Barbarism, the ever-ready counter concept, has provided civilization with its raison d'être—that of exerting violence upon other societies to ‘civilize’ them. Enlightenment thinkers defined
civilization as an opponent of nature, while science and technology, tools with which nature was to be conquered, became one of the basic indicators of development.
Thus was formed the unbroken tie between civilization and science.
In the Muslim world, civilization became a synonym for modernization, a lifestyle imposed by the colonialists and their local counterparts. However, as this volume reveals, the resistance to and reception of Western modernity by non-Western societies is not homogenous, nor is the ‘othering’ unidirectional. If the Orientalist discourse portrayed the Islamic East as an exotic, seductive, and untamed ‘other’, a corresponding Occidentalism also stereotyped the West as the soulless, mechanistic ‘other’ to Islam.
Challenging the embedded prejudices within social theory, Debates on Civilization in the Muslim World questions the Eurocentric understanding of civilization and also explores the themes of modernization, globalization, and the future of the civilization debate.
About the Editor
LUTFI SUNAR teaches at the Department of Sociology, Istanbul University, Turkey. His research interests are classical sociological theory, orientalism, modernization, social change, and political economy.
Edited by Lufti Sunar
Table of contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Debates on Civilization, Islam, and Modernity: Some
Critical Perspectives on the Current Agenda
Lutfi Sunar
PART I DEFINING AND DISCUSSING CIVILIZATION
1. The Idea of Civilization in Eighteenth-Century Social Theory
Anthony Pagden
2. Rethinking Civilization and Its Others: Historical Stages and Social Taxonomies
Lutfi Sunar
3. The Question of Ages in Islamic Civilization: A Different Periodization
Mustafa Demirci
PART II DEBATES ON CIVILIZATION IN THE CONTEMPORARY MUSLIM WORLD
4. The Vision of Order and Al-‘Umran as an Explanatory Concept in the Debates on Civilization
Vahdettin Işık
5. Beyond Civilization: Pan-Islamism, Pan-Asianism, and the Revolt against the West
Cemil Aydın
6. Interaction of Concepts of Progress and Civilization in Turkish Thought
Necmettin Doğan
7. The Rise and Demise of Civilizational Thinking in Contemporary Muslim Political Thought
Halil Ibrahim Yenigun
8. Revisiting Shariati: Probing into Issues of Society and Religion
Seyed Javad Miri
9. Culture and Civilization in the Thought of Alija Izetbegovic
Mahmut Hakkı Akın
10. Debating Islam, Tradition, and Modernity in Contemporary Arab-Islamic Thought: Perspectives of Hassan Hanafi and Abdallah Laroui
Driss Habti
PART III MODERNIZATION, GLOBALIZATION, AND THE FUTURE OF THE CIVILIZATION DEBATE
11. Erring Modernization and Development in the Muslim World
Syed Farid Alatas
12. Civilizations in an Era of Globalization: The Implications of Globalization for the Clash of Civilizations Debate
Yunus Kaya
13. Conceptualizing Civilization between Othering and Multiculturalism
Murat Cemrek
14. An Epistemological Base for a Dynamic Conception of Civilizations and Intercultural Relations
Khosrow Bagheri Noaparast
Notes on Editor and Contributors
Index
Edited by Lufti Sunar
Edited by Lufti Sunar
Description
Since its birth as a concept, civilization has been defined by an encounter with the ‘other’. Barbarism, the ever-ready counter concept, has provided civilization with its raison d'être—that of exerting violence upon other societies to ‘civilize’ them. Enlightenment thinkers defined
civilization as an opponent of nature, while science and technology, tools with which nature was to be conquered, became one of the basic indicators of development.
Thus was formed the unbroken tie between civilization and science.
In the Muslim world, civilization became a synonym for modernization, a lifestyle imposed by the colonialists and their local counterparts. However, as this volume reveals, the resistance to and reception of Western modernity by non-Western societies is not homogenous, nor is the ‘othering’ unidirectional. If the Orientalist discourse portrayed the Islamic East as an exotic, seductive, and untamed ‘other’, a corresponding Occidentalism also stereotyped the West as the soulless, mechanistic ‘other’ to Islam.
Challenging the embedded prejudices within social theory, Debates on Civilization in the Muslim World questions the Eurocentric understanding of civilization and also explores the themes of modernization, globalization, and the future of the civilization debate.
About the Editor
LUTFI SUNAR teaches at the Department of Sociology, Istanbul University, Turkey. His research interests are classical sociological theory, orientalism, modernization, social change, and political economy.
Table of contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Debates on Civilization, Islam, and Modernity: Some
Critical Perspectives on the Current Agenda
Lutfi Sunar
PART I DEFINING AND DISCUSSING CIVILIZATION
1. The Idea of Civilization in Eighteenth-Century Social Theory
Anthony Pagden
2. Rethinking Civilization and Its Others: Historical Stages and Social Taxonomies
Lutfi Sunar
3. The Question of Ages in Islamic Civilization: A Different Periodization
Mustafa Demirci
PART II DEBATES ON CIVILIZATION IN THE CONTEMPORARY MUSLIM WORLD
4. The Vision of Order and Al-‘Umran as an Explanatory Concept in the Debates on Civilization
Vahdettin Işık
5. Beyond Civilization: Pan-Islamism, Pan-Asianism, and the Revolt against the West
Cemil Aydın
6. Interaction of Concepts of Progress and Civilization in Turkish Thought
Necmettin Doğan
7. The Rise and Demise of Civilizational Thinking in Contemporary Muslim Political Thought
Halil Ibrahim Yenigun
8. Revisiting Shariati: Probing into Issues of Society and Religion
Seyed Javad Miri
9. Culture and Civilization in the Thought of Alija Izetbegovic
Mahmut Hakkı Akın
10. Debating Islam, Tradition, and Modernity in Contemporary Arab-Islamic Thought: Perspectives of Hassan Hanafi and Abdallah Laroui
Driss Habti
PART III MODERNIZATION, GLOBALIZATION, AND THE FUTURE OF THE CIVILIZATION DEBATE
11. Erring Modernization and Development in the Muslim World
Syed Farid Alatas
12. Civilizations in an Era of Globalization: The Implications of Globalization for the Clash of Civilizations Debate
Yunus Kaya
13. Conceptualizing Civilization between Othering and Multiculturalism
Murat Cemrek
14. An Epistemological Base for a Dynamic Conception of Civilizations and Intercultural Relations
Khosrow Bagheri Noaparast
Notes on Editor and Contributors
Index
