Islam between Culture and Politics

Chapter 1 Introduction: Islam between Culture and Politics — the Scope and Implications

Chapter 2 Religion, Culture and Social Reality: Islam as a Cultural System, and its Diversity

Chapter 3 Cultural Patterns and the Perception of Change in Islam. A Religious Model for Reality: the Islamic Worldview

Chapter 4 Culture and Social Change: Tradition and Innovation in Cultural Analysis

Chapter 5 The Dichotomy of Structural Globalisation and Fragmenting Cultural Self-Assertion: the Case of Islamic Civilisation

Chapter 6 The Politicisation of Religion: Political Islam as a Defensive-Cultural Response to Global Challenges. A Social-Scientific Interpretation

Chapter 7 From Religious Belief to Political Commitment: the Fundamentalist Revolt against the Secular Order. Between Cultural Modernity and Neo-Absolutism

Chapter 8 Social Change and the Potential for Flexibility in Islamic Law: the Shari’a between Ethics and Politicisation

Chapter 9 Institutions of Learning and Education in Islam: between the Cultural Accommodation of Change, Religious Orthodoxy and the Politics of Cultural Islamisation

Chapter 10 Islam Matters to the West! Islam and Europe, Islam in Europe: Islamic Migration between Cultural Assimilation, Political Integration and Communitarian Ghettoisation

Chapter 11 Islam and the West in the Age of Conflict among Civilisations: the Alternative of Intercultural Dialogue as a Means of Conflict Resolution