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Islam, the West and the Challenges of Modernity Tariq Ramadan
Publisher: Kube Publishing Ltd

Marloes Janson, the author of Islam, Youth, and Modernity in the Gambia, answers our questions about her unique study of the Islamic missionary movement Tablighi Jamaʻat in western Africa. Sep 10, 2007 - In his introduction, Aly writes that his intention is to "start a conversation" at a time when people on both sides of the Islamic-Western divide have become increasingly unwilling to admit the legitimacy of human difference. Underlining the challenges they face in their quest for moral perfection, my interlocutors described the process of becoming a Tablighi as a 'conversion' and 'spiritual journey'. Oct 28, 2010 - ISLAM: THE TRAUMA OF MODERNITY by Marlin Jeschke Marlin Jeschke has also written a book, Rethinking Holy Land, A Study in Salvation Geography which has a vision for possessing the land which is a fresh alternative to the historical pattern of conquest and displacement of terrorized populations. Women's challenges and relations with globalization and modernity in Western and Islamic civilizations. The question of secularism in Islamic and Western debates. Oct 4, 2010 - This article attempts to examine, through the work of one Muslim intellectual, how contemporary knowledge production in Islam has attempted to grapple with the secularizing effects of western modernity. His careful reading of the And then there are the millions of immigrants to the West (an estimated 4,000,000 in the U.S.) who face new challenges. Instead, they are determined that everyone should become "like them". Dec 27, 2013 - Whenever democratic space has opened up, people have been eager to choose those who not only provide a better solution for their economic and social problems, but who can also offer them a recognition of the authenticity of their cultures. Aly proposes that we should "identify, encourage and pursue a classical Islamic response to the challenges of modernity". Islamic Ethics and Liberation; The Messenger: the Meanings of the Life of Muhammad; To Be a European Muslim: a Study of Islamic Sources in the European Context; and Islam, the West and the Challenges of Modernity. Feb 21, 2014 - An Interview with Marloes Janson.