Muslim Societies and the Challenge of Secularization

Introduction; Gabriele Marranci.- Muslims Debating the Secular in Global Societies; Gabriele Marranci.- 1. The Opinions of Tariq Ramadan and Yusuf Al-Qaradawi on Secularism; Göran Larsson.- 2. Reinventing Modernity: the Muslim Thinkers and the West?; Andrea Duranti.- 3. Muslim Thinkers and the Debate on Secularism and Laicité; Barbara De Poli.- 4. Internal Debates on Democracy, Pluralism and Secularism in the Islamic Tradition: The Case of the Deoband Madrassa in North India; SherAli Tareen.- Living Islam in Global Societies; Gabriele Marranci.- 5. Contentions in the Making: Accounts of Secularism from First Generation Muslim Migrants in Scotland; Juan F. Caraballo-Resto.- 6. A State of Islam: Modernity and Muslim Life in 21st Century Australia; Nasya Bahfen.- 7. 'So Things Are Different ... Doesn't Mean They're Wrong' Identity Negotiation in Narratives of U.S. Muslim Women Immigrants; Gail Hickey.- 8. Imams and the West. How Hamburg's Muslim Leaders Cope with Secularism and Democracy; Wiebke Fleig, Elisabeth Knoblauch.- 9. Re-Orienting Modernity: Dialogues in the Art and Architecture of Islam; A. Sameh El Kharbawy.- 10. Negotiating Islam and Secularism in Turkish Courts; Seval Yildirim.- The Political Dimensions of Muslim Identities; Gabriele Marranci.- 11. Muslim Modernity: Poetics, Politics, and Metaphysics; Masood A. Raja.- 12. Islam and Democracy in the 21st Century; Haifaa Jawad.- 13. Secular-Muslim Identity on Parade: A Turco-European Response to Islamophobia; Hakki Gürkas.- 14. How to Deal with Religion s Public Role: the Value of Liberal Theory for Muslim Contexts; Arif A Jamal.- 15. Muslims and Secular Identities; Richard C. Martin.- Conclusion; Gabriele Marranci.- Index.

Gabriele Marranci is an Associate Professor and Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. He is the founding editor of the journal Contemporary Islam: Dynamics of Muslim Life, and the book series (with Prof. Bryan Turner) Muslims in Global Societies, and also author of Jihad Beyond Islam, The Anthropology of Islam and Understanding Muslim Identity, Rethinking Fundamentalism. He is the author of the blog Islam, Muslims and an Anthropologists.