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Islamic Contestations: Essays on Muslims In India and Pakistan. By Barbara D. Metcalf

Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 2007

ing that samsara is no different from nirvana metaphysically, we still need to work out its implications ethically. I would recommend that to get the best out of this book a reader should first read an essay and then jump to the relevant section in Magliola's afterword in order to see Magliola's analysis of that piece, as well as his often spirited challenge of the author's blind sights in his/her interpretation of Buddhism and vigorous defense of the Derridean deconstruction project.

Dynamics of Islam in the Modern World. Essays in Honor of Jamal Malik

2022

Dynamics of Islam in the Modern World scrutinizes and analyzes Islam in context. It posits Muslims not as independent and autonomous, but as relational and interactive agents of change and continuity who interplay with Islamic(ate) sources of self and society as well as with resources from other traditions. Representing multiple disciplinary approaches, the contributors to this volume discuss a broad range of issues, such as secularization, colonialism, globalization, radicalism, human rights, migration, hermeneutics, mysticism, religious normativity and pluralism, while paying special attention to three geographical settings of South Asia, the Middle East and Euro-America.

Review Essay: The Perpetual Politics of Islam

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Introduction: Dynamics of Islam in the Modern World: Essays in Honor of Jamal Malik

Dynamics of Islam in the Modern World: Essays in Honor of Jamal Malik, 2022

My introduction to a collection of essays that honors the scholarship of Professor Jamal Malik. The introduction outlines a theoretical framework for understanding the volume's essays and Malik's various contributions to the history of Islam, Islam in South Asia, and Contemporary Muslim life in Western Europe and North America. I argue that the contributors to this volume posit Muslims not as docile and autonomous but as relational and interactive agents of change as well as continuity. They depict Muslims as interacting with Islamic(ate) sources of self and society but also with resources from other traditions of thought and practice. This volume understands intra- and intercultural relations as fluid and metamorphic, not as static and isomorphic. While attuned to the local, the following chapters also direct their gaze to the global. The contributors highlight the “dynamics of Islam in the modern world” – namely, the diachronic dialectical components of Islamic thought and culture as well as the diverse ways Muslims interact with broader frames of reference as they navigate the challenges and opportunities of the modern world. These include, to name only some of the prominent themes examined here, secularization, colonialism, religious insurgency, human rights, the nation-state, globalization, migration and pluralism.