RT Book T1 Islams and modernities T2 Phronesis A1 ʿAẓma, ʿAzīz al- 1947- LA English PP London u.a. PB Verso YR 1993 ED 1. publ. UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/12820012X AB Challenging the similarly romantic, a historic and irreconcilable notions of Islamic and Western cultures, this book cuts through conventional wisdom and common cliches to highlight the plurality and historicity of both. For Aziz Al-Azmeh, the Orientalist and racist view of Islam is nothing but the mirror-image of the myths propagated by the Islamic fundamentalists and radicals. In this book he demonstrates both views share an erroneous and an historical conception of Islam as an unchanging and monolithic entity. Moreover, this analysis dissects the mutual implication of both the dominant Western discourse and its supposed primary opponent, postmodernism, in this form of essentialism. There is no one, homogeneous Islam, and this book highlights the diversity and plurality of forms of the Muslim tradition, seeking to understand historically the phenomenon of fundamentalism, amongst other strands, as a profoundly modern ideology. Challenging the stereotypes and legends of both its opponents and proponents, the book traces how political Islam breaks with core elements of the Muslim tradition and, at the same time, roots many of its concepts in European reactionary and romantic thought NO Literaturangaben CN BP163 SN 0860914518 SN 086091626X K1 Islam : 21st century K1 Islam and politics K1 Islamic fundamentalism K1 Islam : 20th century K1 Islam K1 Fundamentalismus K1 Religion K1 Islamische Länder/Islamische Welt : Islam : Politischer Islam : Religiöser Fundamentalismus : Moderne Kultur : Modernisierung : Sozioökonomischer Wandel : Islamkunde : Politische Grundwerte : Verhältnis Religionsgemeinschaft - Staat : Gesellschaftssystem K1 a : Islamic fundamentalism K1 a : Islam : 20th century K1 Aufsatzsammlung