Toward New Democratic Imaginaries - Istanbul Seminars on Islam, Culture and Politics
This volume combines rigorous empirical and theoretical analyses with political engagement to look beyond reductive short-hands that ignore the historical evolution and varieties of Islamic doctrine and that deny the complexities of Muslim societies'' encounters with modernity itself. Are Islam and democracy compatible? Can we shed the language of ''Islam vs. the West'' for new political imaginari...
This volume combines rigorous empirical and theoretical analyses with political engagement to look beyond reductive short-hands that ignore the historical evolution and varieties of Islamic doctrine and that deny the complexities of Muslim societies'' encounters with modernity itself. Are Islam and democracy compatible? Can we shed the language of ''Islam vs. the West'' for new political imaginari...