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1) World politics should express cosmic consciousness and allow for individual and global blossoming, but currently does so in an imperfect manner due to perspectives and experiences. 2) Billions of people have common needs for individual and global blossoming, whether consciously or unconsciously. 3) Visible signs of individual and global blossoming include various charitable organizations providing aid, as well as practices like yoga, herbal medicine, and holistic education that promote well-being.

World Politics Dr Shriniwas Janardan Kashalikar

Islam and the west

Zhulkeflee Ismail

Ustaz Zhulkeflee reflects on the topic of "Islam and the West" and cautions against reducing Islam to the East in the East-West dichotomy. He argues that Islam is a universal religion that belongs to all of humanity, not any particular region. While geographical distinctions can be made for convenience, the East-West distinction now carries cultural overtones from colonial times that risk reviving old sentiments. True righteousness in Islam lies not in outward practices but the beliefs and values of compassion, justice, and morality that can unite all people beyond regional categories.

Human cultural variation

DIEGO Pomarca

This document discusses different types of human cultural variation. It defines cultural variation as differences in social behaviors between cultures. For example, what may be considered good etiquette in one culture may be bad etiquette in another. The document also discusses variation between cultures, citing examples of how geography and environment have shaped cultural aspects like diet. It further explores concepts like subculture, counterculture, and the differences between high culture and popular culture.

Stress and world politics dr. shriniwas kashalikar

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The document discusses stress and world politics from the perspective of global and individual blossoming. It argues that world politics should promote cosmic consciousness through interaction and cooperation between individuals and groups. Currently, this is happening imperfectly due to issues with perspective, understanding, and experience. The document outlines several visible examples of common human aspirations for individual and global growth. It then provides a list of proposed changes that could lead to a more explicit manifestation of this shared goal, including universal spiritual practice, ensuring basic needs, redefining health, adopting holistic education and integrating spiritual activities into all areas of life.

This document discusses the increasing interest in Islam in the West and reasons for negative perceptions of Islam. It analyzes factors that have led to the idea of an "Islamic threat" in Western societies, including political events, increased Muslim migration to Europe, and prejudices rooted in historical rivalries between Islam and Christianity. The document also examines misleading tendencies in how the Western media and experts analyze Muslim communities and issues related to the growing Muslim presence in Western Europe.

Islamophobia: Challenges & Response

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Islamophobia is the irrational hostility, fear, or hatred of Islam, Muslims, and Islamic culture at individual, societal or state level It also connotes active discrimination against these groups or individuals within them with due process of law or without it It manifests itself through individual attitudes and behaviours, and the policies and practices of organizations and institutions. This presentation attempts to clarify the concept, analyse its underlying causes, and suggests a plan of action to counter it

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This document provides an introduction and overview of the geopolitical relationship between Islam and the West. It argues that while "Islam" and the "West" are broad terms encompassing diversity, the West's global dominance since the end of the Cold War has led some to view Islam as a potential counterweight. However, Islam is not a monolith and there are many sources of diversity within the religion across different countries and regions. The document aims to analyze what is meant when referring to the relationship between Islam and the West without treating either as a single unified entity.

5. Concept of islamophobia and it's role in state politics 01.pptx

Umar266202

The document discusses the concept of Islamophobia. It provides several definitions of Islamophobia from different organizations. It notes Islamophobia can manifest as individual attitudes and behaviors as well as policies and practices of institutions. The causes of Islamophobia discussed include historical memory, cataclysmic events like terrorist attacks, and global trends involving Muslims in Western countries. A six point plan is proposed to counter Islamophobia.

Common Patterns of Religious [Islamic] Revival in Central Asia and Challenges...

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Call for Papers, Unsettling Colonial Modernity: Islamicate Contexts in Focus,...

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This document announces an academic conference titled "Unsettling Colonial Modernity: Islamicate Contexts in Focus" to be held at the University of Alberta on April 24-25, 2015. The conference will examine the impact of 19th century European colonialism on Islamic societies and identity formations. It will consider challenges to the homogenizing concept of European modernity, as well as alternative discourses such as indigenous and multiple modernities. The organizing committee invites paper and poster submissions on topics related to colonialism, identity, and Islamophobia. Keynote speakers will be Dr. Sherene Razack and Dr. Parin Dossa, scholars of feminism, race, and the experiences of Muslim women.

Aesr@5

This document discusses the role of contemporary Islamic movements towards social and political changes of modernity. It summarizes that contemporary Islamic movements emerged in response to Western colonialism and domination, the negative effects of modernization, and the failure of secular ideologies. The movements aim to reestablish an authentic Islamic society based on the Quran and hadith. Notable 19th-20th century Islamic thinkers like Jamal al-Din al-Afghani, Muhammad Abduh, and Muhammad Rashid Rida advocated Islamic reform and responding to modern challenges through ijtihad (independent reasoning). Their ideas influenced later Islamic revivalist movements.

Post modernism and islam

Hameel Khan

1. The document discusses the relationship between Islam and postmodernism. 2. Postmodernism challenges the idea of ultimate principles and denies the existence of scientific or religious truths that can fully explain reality. However, postmodernism cannot ultimately justify itself under its own principles. 3. The document explores how postmodernism relates to fundamentalism and ethno-religious revivalism. It also examines continuity between postmodernism and the past. 4. For Muslims, modernism led to issues like oppression, corruption, and unequal wealth distribution. The document ponders how postmodernism could be understood and applied in an Islamic context.

Muslim legacy syed hossien nasr

Syarifah Ummu Salamah Anas

This summarizes a biography of Seyyed Hossein Nasr, a prominent Islamic scholar. Nasr was born in Iran in 1933 and exposed to both Islamic and Western traditions from a young age. He has held academic positions in the US teaching Islamic studies and has authored many influential works on Islam, philosophy, and the relationship between religion and modernity. Nasr is critical of secularism and aspects of modernity that distance society from sacred traditions and principles. He advocates returning to traditional Islamic perspectives to confront challenges posed by the modern world.

Rethinking Social Science Education

Asad Zaman

A Western education is highly Eurocentric, but pretends to be objective and universal. In particular, social sciences are lessons extracted from European historical experience on how to organized society. The false claim, embodied in the word "science", is that these are universally applicable. Shock and Awe of Western technological prowess has led to unquestioning acceptance of this claim. In turn, this has led to the attempt to shape all societies around the world on European patterns. This has caused massive harm, as these European conceptions of society are in dramatic conflict with local cultures. There is an urgent need to recognize and reject Eurocentric Social Science, and rebuild the study of diverse societies on broader intellectual bases. Islamic epistemology provides such alternative foundations, which are discussed in this set of slides

All Quiet On The Western Front The Loss Of Radical Islamic Feminism At The ...

Sean Flores

This document summarizes a paper that argues Islamic feminism has lost its radical roots and become co-opted by the concept of "European Islam". Key points: 1) Islamic feminism originally expressed a universal form that supported women's liberation, but has shifted to a particularist expression focused on assimilation into Western norms. 2) The concept of "European Islam" seeks to distance itself from political Islam and expressions of Islam from immigrant communities, instead positioning European Islam as indigenous. 3) Islamic feminism has been appropriated by proponents of European Islam in a way that undermines the goal of women's liberation, by denying Muslim women the right to define their own terms of liberation.

Islamophobia

Dr Iftkhar Hussain

This document discusses the origins and history of Islamophobia. It argues that Islamophobia stems from opposition to Islamic political governance dating back to the Crusades, as Western Christians saw Islam as a threat. This opposition grew during the Enlightenment as secularism took hold in the West. Post-9/11, the "War on Terror" further increased anti-Muslim sentiment by portraying political Islam as incompatible with Western values. The document calls for an intellectual, academic response to address the roots of Islamophobia as an ideological phenomenon, not just a reaction to events, and a global, civilizational response from Muslims that does not view it as merely a racial issue.

Muslims of South Africa from newspapers to social media Abstract - Prof. Yous...

Islam and Modernity.pdf

The chapter discusses the complex relationship between political Islam, modernity, and the West. It notes there is an ongoing battle over how to reconcile Islam with modernity. This struggle is taking place not just in Muslim-majority countries but also among Muslim communities in Western nations. Major events since the 1990s have intensified the quest for Muslim identity with regards to tradition versus modernity. While modernity has advanced ideas of liberation, it has also led to some of the most violent practices. Muslims have generally accepted aspects of modernity but not always willingly, and reactionary fundamentalism has sometimes emerged in response to the imposition of modernizing reforms.

Islamization of Sociological Knowledge: A Review

Md Sayed Uddin

Fitzi & Mackert & Turner (eds.) - Populism and the Crisis of Democracy. Volum...

frank0071

The role of Muslim minorities in re-building the Islamic Civilisation - Dr Ja...

Karaganda Medical University

Ali Shariati.docx by Irfan Haider Khairvi

LaYirFan

Dr. Ali Shariati was an influential 20th century Islamist philosopher from Iran who argued that society should conform to Islamic values rather than be managed in the most efficient way. He believed Islam could provide solutions to societal problems if revived and renewed in a progressive way. Shariati believed traditional interpretations of Islam had become stagnant and that a modernized version was needed to counter Western influences and address issues facing Muslim societies. He thought enlightened intellectuals, not religious scholars, should lead this Islamic resurgence through logical analysis and scientific research.

Post-Islamist Intellectual Trends in Pakistan: Javed Ahmad Ghamidi and His Di...

HusnulAmin5

Eurocentric and essentialist approaches are applied to make sense of the complex Muslim societies. These approaches reduce complex social processes to certain immutable, fixed and unchanging traits. With such reductive theoretical lens, such readings of Islam, presuppose an inherent rigidity in the nature of Islamic text. When Muslim societies and its social trajectories are understood in the light of such immutable texts, as a logical conclusion, Islam turns out to be incompatible with modern values of liberty and democracy. Islam and Muslim societies are constructed as entities essentially distinct from Europe and the West. Even if a transition from authoritarian form of political order to a more democratic one is intended, it will have to be a secularized form of Islamic democracy wherein the separation of religion and state is ensured. However, in the recent past, a growing number of academic enquiries have challenged the validity of such reductive and essentialist approaches toward understanding Muslim societies and its societal trajectories. Multiple intellectual voices and social trends have been identified that construct harmonious relationship between Islam and democracy, and in more general terms, between Islam and modernity. Some scholars argue that reformation of religious thought followed by the articulation of an “Islamic Theory of Secularism” may pave the way for democratization in Muslim societies. As intermediaries, between the Divine text and the general public, the role of scholars, institutions and social movements is thus crucial in creating bonds of complicity (or otherwise) between Islam and democracy. As an empirical example, this research explores and highlights the emergence of an intellectual community in Pakistan led by a religious scholar Javed Ahmad Ghamidi. The genesis, intellectual biography and unprecedented popularity gained by Ghamidi and his close associates, also reveal mutation, discontinuity and change from their previous religious position. The present paper aims to achieve two humble purposes: to discuss the emergence of a post-Islamist intellectual trend with specific focus on Ghamidi, and to provide a descriptive analysis of Ghamidi’s post-Islamist turn, and the way he and his interpretive community construct a harmonious relationship

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