Islam Between Culture and Politics By Bassam Tibi
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan 2002-02-09 | 292 Pages | ISBN: 0333751205 | PDF | 2.2 MB
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan 2002-02-09 | 292 Pages | ISBN: 0333751205 | PDF | 2.2 MB
Bassam Tibi offers a radical solution to the problems faced by Islam in a rapidly changing and globalizing world. He argues that Islam is being torn between the pressure for cultural innovation and a defensive move towards the politicization of its symbols for non-religious ends. Tibi proposes a depoliticization of the faith and the introduction of reforms to embrace secular democracy, pluralism, civil society, and individual human rights. The alternative to this is the impasse of fundamentalism.