Download PDF by Susanne Olsson,Carool Kersten: Alternative Islamic Discourses and Religious Authority

By Susanne Olsson,Carool Kersten

Like anyplace else, the present-day Islamic international too is grappling with modernity and postmodernity, secularisation and globalisation. Muslims are elevating questions on non secular representations and authority. This has given upward push to the emergence of different Islamic discourses which problem binary oppositions and dichotomies of orthodoxy and heterodoxy, continuity and alter, country and civil society. It additionally results in a dispersal of authority, a cave in of present hierarchical constructions and gender roles. This booklet extra argues that the centre of gravity of a lot of those replacement Islamic discourses is transferring from the Arabic-speaking 'heartland' in the direction of the geographical peripheries of the Muslim international and expatriate Muslims in North the United States and Europe. while, in view of modern seismic shifts within the political constellation of the center East, the tendencies mentioned during this publication carry vital clues for the potential course of destiny advancements in that risky a part of the Muslim world.

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