The Institutional Mold of Islamic Civility: Contractualism vs. Overcoming Eurocentric Views: Religion and Civility within Islam/Islamdom 271
The Dystopian Globalization of Civility 239ĭiversifying Civility as the Outcome of Civilizing Processes 251įrom Islamic Exceptionalism to a Plural Islamic Perspective 260 The study is located at the crucial intersection between a variety of disciplines in the social sciences and the humanities. The Metamorphosis of Civility under Colonialism 201Ĭourt Dynamics and Emerging Elites: The Complexification of the Civilizing Process 218Ĭlass, Gender, and Generation: The Ultimate Testing Grounds of the Educational-Civilizing Project 226ħ Global Civility and Its Islamic Articulations 239 The LongWave of PowerDecentralization 189Ħ Colonial Blueprints of Order and Civility 201 Taming theWarriors into Games of Civility? Violence, Warfare, and Peace 176 PART III Modern Islamic Articulations of Civilityĥ Knowledge and Power: The Civilizing Process before Colonialism 165įrom the Mongol Impact to the Early Modern Knowledge–Power Configurations 165 Liminality, Charisma, and Social Organization 140 New Patterns of Civic Connectedness Centered on the ‘Commoners’ 131 The Permutable Combinations of Normativity and Civility 118Ĥ Social Autonomy and Civic Connectedness: The Islamic Ecumene in Comparative Perspective 131 The Steady Expansion of Islamic Patterns of Translocal Civility 105Īuthority, Autonomy, and Power Networks: A Grid of Flexible Institutions 114
PART II Islamic Civility in Historical and Comparative Perspectiveģ Flexible Institutionalization and the Expansive Civility of the Islamic Ecumene 105 Power/Wealth: The Challenge of Religious Movements 18Ĭivility as the Engine of the Knowledge–Power Equation: Islam and ‘Islamdom’ 23ġ The Limits of Civil Society and the Path to Civility 43Ĭivil Society as a Site of Production of Modern Power 50įolding Civil Society into a Transversal Notion of Civility 57Ģ Brotherhood as a Matrix of Civility: The Islamic Ecumene and Beyond 73īetween Networking, ‘Charisma,’ and Social Autonomy: The Contours of ‘Spiritual’ Brotherhoods 73īeyond Sufism: The Unfolding of the Brotherhood 85 Knowledge and Power in the Sociology of Islam 1 The study of the sociology of Islam improves the understanding of Islam as a diverse force that drives a variety of social and political arrangements.ĭelving into both conceptual questions and historical interpretations, The Sociology of Islam is a transdisciplinary, comparative resource for students, scholars, and policy makers seeking to understand Islam’s complex changes throughout history and its impact on the modern world. The volume focuses on ideas of knowledge, power and civility to provide students and readers with analytic and critical thinking frameworks for understanding the complex social facets of Islamic traditions and institutions.
It discusses the long-term dynamics of Islam as both a religion and as a social, political and cultural force. The study is located at the crucial intersection between a variety of disciplines in the social sciences and the humanities. The Sociology of Islam provides an accessible introduction to this emerging field of inquiry, teaching and debate.
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