Islam Globalization and Postmodernity

This book examines the cultural responses of Muslims to the transformations contradictions and challenges confronting contemporary Islam as it moves towards the twenty-first century. The diffusion of populations the globalization of culture and the forces of postmodernity have shaken the world like never before. These developments have generated a debate among Muslims which as the contributors to this volume show will have far-reaching consequences not just for the Muslim world but for relations between Islam and the West more generally.