Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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978-0-7425-5750-5 • Hardback • October 2010 • $128.00 • (£98.00)
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Nevzat Soguk is professor of political science at the University of Hawai`i at Manoa.
Introduction: Islam, Islamism, and Globalization
Chapter 1: Islamic Globalism Unveiled
Chapter 2: Histories Untold: The Irresistible Charm of Islamic Cosmopolitanism
Chapter 3: Islamic Intellectual Legacies: Modern Amnesia and Political Philosophy
Chapter 4: Crossroads of Global Islam and Islamism in Turkey
Chapter 5: Archipelagos of Islam in Indonesia
Chapter 6: Radical Vanishing: Islam into Global Commonspaces
Bibliography
In this ambitious book, Soguk aims to reveal multiple understandings of Islam from history to present. He is critical of two groups of actors, the Western Orientalists and Wahhabis, for their misrepresentations of Islam. Soguk regards Islamic tradition as much richer than these actors present. The book focuses on two sets of cases to stress some arguably understudied aspects of Islamic thought and Muslim practices. The historical cases include the medieval Islamic philosophers (mutazila), who influenced both Muslim and Christian lands with their rationalist philosophy. The contemporary set of cases is Turkey and Indonesia, which reflect diverse Muslim thoughts and activism in both politics and civil society. . . . This book is good to provoke thoughts on a number of important questions, given its consistent perspective and interesting cases. Summing Up: Recommended.
— Choice Reviews
Nevzat Soguk provides an interesting reading of the relationship and tension between Islam as a religion and Islamism as an ideology. . . . The book is well written, clear, and includes useful boxes that help the reader to navigate within a complex and very condensed history. . . . Overall the book is interesting, provides food for thought and is particularly useful for undergraduate courses on Islam, whether from a historical, sociological or political approach.
— MESA Bulletin
Nevzat Soguk brilliantly subverts the conventional 'Jihad vs. McWorld' discussion of Islam and globalization by unveiling both the intrinsic modernity of Muslimness and the Muslimness of modernity. An erudite, highly readable, and thoroughly human account of Islamic cosmopolitanism.
— Peter Mandaville, George Mason University; author of Global Political Islam
Globalization and Islamism is a gem of a book. Elegantly written, it effectively tears down essentialist accounts of the so-called phenomenon of 'political Islam.'
— Mustapha Kamal Pasha, Chair in International Politics, Aberystwyth University
This book provides the depth and analysis that has been hard to find until now—great text!
— Daniel Kirk, Macon State College
An excellent broad approach that spells out individual difference in a comprehendible framework.
— John D. Stempel, senior professor emeritus at and former director of International Relations U.K. Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce, University of Kentucky
Highlights non-Arab Islamic societies with case studies of Turkey and Indonesia
Relates Islam's classical age to modern-day Islam
Conceptualizes Islamic history as part of a series of earlier globalizations
Argues that Islamic pluralism is integral to historical Islamic traditions
Shows how Islamic and Western civilizations overlapped and developed together
Includes original translations and exclusive interviews with Islamic leaders