Unveiling Traditions: Postcolonial Islam in a Polycentric World

by Anouar Majid

Book Overview

In Unveiling Traditions Anouar Majid issues a challenge to the West to reimagine Islam as a progressive world culture and a participant in the building of a multicultural and more egalitarian world civilization. From within the highly secularized space it inhabits, a space endemically suspicious of religion, the West must find a way, writes Majid, to embrace Islamic societies as partners in building a more inclusive and culturally diverse global...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082232623X
• ISBN13: 9780822326236
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"