This book examines the cultural responses of Muslims to the transformationscontradictions and challenges confronting contemporary Islam as it movestowards the t... » 

This book examines the cultural responses of Muslims to the transformationscontradictions and challenges confronting contemporary Islam as it movestowards the twentyfirst century. The diffusion of populations theglobalization of culture and the forces of postmodernity have shaken the worldlike never before. These developments have generated a debate among Muslimswhich as the contributors to this volume show will have farreachingconsequences not just for the Muslim world but for relations between Islam andthe West more generally. «