Freedom and Orthodoxy : Islam and Difference in the Post-Andalusian Age
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Overview
This book argues that the "clash of civilizations" that is supposed to be a feature of the post-Cold War environment is not necessarily caused by the dogma of world religions or cultural incompatibilities but by the inflexible and hegemonic universalisms that have characterized world history since 1492-a cultural outlook that Majid terms post-Andalusianism. The all-encompassing worldviews of Euro-American ideologies have resulted in the retreat of Islam and other non-European traditions into dangerous orthodoxies and a growing climate of suspicion, fear, and terror.
Freedom and Orthodoxy offers an alternative to perennial discord, suggesting that the world needs a philosophy of the "provincial," one that reattaches individuals and societies to their heritages and memories but connects them to the rest of the world in solid, non-alienating, meaningful ways. For this to happen, Majid contends, globalization must be reimagined as a network of human solidarities and rigorous conversations across the world's multiple cultures, not as a mechanical process of economic expansionism.
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- ISBN-13: 9780804749800
- ISBN-10: 0804749809
- Publisher: Stanford University Press
- Publish Date: December 2003
- Dimensions: 9.48 x 6.22 x 0.85 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.12 pounds
- Page Count: 288
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