Toward new democratic imaginaries

İstanbul seminars on Islam, culture and politics

Seyla Benhabib, Volker Kaul

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 imaginaries? The authors analyze struggles over political legitimacy since the Arab Spring and the rise of Al Qaeda and ISIS in their historical and political complexity across the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region. Distinguishing multiculturalism from interculturalism and understanding multiple modernities, philosophers in the volume tease out the complexities of civilizational encounters. The volume also shows how the Paris massacres or the Danish caricature controversy do not remain confined to Europe but influence struggles and confrontations within Muslim societies. Gender and Islam are addressed from a comparative perspective bringing into conversation not only the experience of different Muslim countries with Islamic law but also by analysing Jewish family law.


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Foreword

Kaul Volker

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9-18
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19-29
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31-40
After the Arab Spring

Walzer Michael

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41-49
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51-61
Genie in the bottle

Romain Örs İlay

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63-73
All quiet on the Kemalist front?

Borovalı Murat; Boyraz Cemil

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75-85
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89-95
Foreword

Kaul Volker

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97-109
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111-124
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125-136
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137-147
Islam

Charfi Abdelmajid

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149-160
Whither democracy?

Dallmayr Fred

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161-169
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171-177
Islam and the West

Bilgrami Akeel

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181-188
Foreword

Kaul Volker

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189-200
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201-210
Misunderstanding cultures

Appiah Kwame Anthony

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211-217
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229-240
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241-251
Reflexive pluralism

Ferrara Alessandro

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253-262
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265-270
Foreword

Kaul Volker

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271-279
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281-289
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291-300
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301-313
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Faith in law?

Shachar Ayelet

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