This book is primarily addressed to the Muslim and non-Muslim intelligentsia – professionals, teachers, students and political activists – residing in the West as well as in the Muslim world. It contains chapters that will enable them to wrestle with the multitude of problems inhibiting a cordial relationship between the West and the Muslim World. This book, containing edited papers presented in a conference, hopefully will open serious dialogues for a just and peaceful world order.
Table of Contents :
Foreword
Preface and Acknowledgements
Note on Contributors
Table of Contents
Introduction: Introducing the Issues
Part One: Modernization, Democracy and Human Rights
Chap 1 The Muslim World in the Twenty-First Century: Challenges and Promises
Chap 2 Democracy, Islam and the Muslim World: An Evaluative Study
Chap 3 Democracy versus Restrictions on Freedom of Thought in the Arab-Muslim World
Part Two: Human Relationships and Terrorism
Chap 4 Muslims, Modernity and the Failure of International Relations
Chap 5 Muslim/Non-Muslim Relations: An Integrative Approach
Chap 6 Contemporary Issues in Terrorism
Chap 7 Suicide Terrorism: The Use of Human Life as a Weapon
Chap 8 Socializing Terrorists in a Global Context
Chap 9 The “Mythic” Foundations of Radical Islamist Violence
Chap 10 Islam and Terrorism: Beyond the Wisdom of the Secularist Paradigm
Chap 11 Relational and Contextual Reasoning: Toward Overcoming Cognitive Conflict
Part Three: Living In and with the West
Chap 12 Reflections in a Bloodshot Lens: The Communications Gap between America and the World’s Muslims
Chap 13 Mediating the Mediated Image of Islam: Multiple Audiences, Differentiated Constituencies in the Global Age
Chap 14 From the Margin to the Centre: Muslims in Europe
Conclusion: Clarifying the Issues
Bibliography
Index
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Abdul Rashid Moten
ABDUL RASHID MOTEN is a Professor Emeritus and Guest Writer at the International Islamic University Malaysia. He earned his BA (Hons) and MA from Dhaka University Bangladesh; MA from Villanova University, Pennsylvania, USA; and PhD from the University of Alberta, Canada. He has been lecturing at many universities for about 45 years. He has extensive experience as an administrator. He has authored and edited 28 books and monographs and has contributed over 150 articles in internationally refereed journals and encyclopedias. He served as the editor and guest editor of many journals.
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Noraini Mohd Noor
Noraini Mohd. Noor, Ph.D., is a Professor of Psychology and the Coordinator of the Women for Progress Research Unit at the International Islamic University, Malaysia. Previously, she taught at the University Sains Malaysia and University of Malaya. Her areas of interest include issues relating to women’s work and family roles in relation to well-being, work stress, individual differences and workplace policies. She has published numerous articles/books on these topics. She has been a recipient of the Commonwealth Fellowship, Chevening and Colombo Plan awards, respectively. Her recent publications include “Malaysian women’s state of psychological well-being: Empirical validation of a conceptual model.” Journal of Social Psychology, 146 (2006) and “Locus of control, supportive workplace policies and work-family conflict,” Psychologia: An International Journal of Psychology in the Orient, 49 (2006).
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Draws on the creative insights and wisdom of both Muslim and non-Muslim scholars from various countries.
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Coherent assessment by scholars from a range of disciplines who appreciate the need for transdisciplinary practices that reduce prejudice and promote tolerance across levels, from individual to international.
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The collection, written by Muslim and non-Muslim experts is a welcome addition to the literature that provide an unbiased account of democracy and terrorism.
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Written by experts that challenges the conventional view on the issues of democracy and terrorism and the relationship between the West and the Muslim world.
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This book makes a useful contribution to the continuing debate on Western attempts at exporting democracy to combat terrorism in the Muslim world
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Draws on the creative insights and wisdom of both Muslim and non-Muslim scholars from various countries.
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Coherent assessment by scholars from a range of disciplines who appreciate the need for transdisciplinary practices that reduce prejudice and promote tolerance across levels, from individual to international.
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The collection, written by Muslim and non-Muslim experts is a welcome addition to the literature that provide an unbiased account of democracy and terrorism.
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Written by experts that challenges the conventional view on the issues of democracy and terrorism and the relationship between the West and the Muslim world.
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This book makes a useful contribution to the continuing debate on Western attempts at exporting democracy to combat terrorism in the Muslim world