Philosophy and politics - Critical explorations ;Vol. 2
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Series: Philosophy and politics - Critical explorations ;Vol. 2
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Preface; Acknowledgments; About the Authors; Introduction; Why ??stanbul?; The New Legitimation Crises of the Arab States; The Women's Question; Religious Revivals, Democracy, and Secularization; Islam in Europe: Political Theologies of the Present; Political Liberalism and the Challenge of Hyper-pluralism; Conclusion; A Note on the Text; Part I: Struggles Over Political Legitimacy: The Arab Spring, Al-Qaeda, and Gezi Park; Chapter 1: Foreword: Contemporary Conflicts, Political Legitimacy and Islam; 1.1 Non-religious Sources of Conflicts; 1.2 Oppression, Religion and Conflicts 1.3 Religion as Source of Conflicts Notes; References; Chapter 2: The Public Visibility of Islam and European Politics of Resentment: The Minarets-Mosques Debate; 2.1 Lost 'Innocence' of Mosques; 2.2 Mosques as Interface; 2.3 Visibility and Proximity: Islamic Transgressions; 2.4 Populist Nationalism and Islamophobia; 2.5 Publics in Confrontation, Publics in the Making?; Notes; Chapter 3: 'Creative Destruction': States, Identities and Legitimacy in the Arab World; Notes; Chapter 4: After the Arab Spring; 4.1 Religion and Liberation; 4.2 Zealotry and Authoritarianism 4.3 Hierarchy and Democracy4.4 What Should We Do?; Chapter 5: Politics After Al-Qaeda; 5.1 The Loss of Geopolitics; 5.2 Crisis of the International Order; 5.3 New American Century; Chapter 6: Genie in the Bottle: Gezi Park, Taksim Square, and the Realignment of Democracy and Space in Turkey; 6.1 Democracy and Space; 6.2 Gezi Resistance; 6.3 Taksim Square; 6.3.1 The Ottoman Cosmopolitan; 6.3.2 The Republican Central; 6.3.3 )The AKP Parenthesis(; 6.3.4 The Gezi Utopian; 6.4 The Gezi Spirit; Note; References; Chapter 7: All Quiet on the Kemalist Front?; 7.1 A Historical Sketch 7.2 Kemalists at the Crossroads: Emergence of 'Civil' Kemalism7.3 Kemalist NGOs Today; 7.4 Glorification of the Past; 7.5 Political Implications; 7.6 Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 8: Rethinking the 'Kurdish question' in Turkey: Modernity, Citizenship and Democracy; 8.1 Turkish Modernity; 8.2 The Crisis of Turkish Modernity13; 8.3 The Possibility of a Democratic Solution; Notes; Part II: Islam and Democracy in the Global Age; Chapter 9: Foreword: Islam and Democracy; 9.1 The Epistemological Argument; 9.2 The Practical Argument; Reference Chapter 10: The 'Others' in the Qur'an: A Hermeneutical Approach10.1 Introduction; 10.2 The Qur'an and Islam; 10.3 The Qur'an and History: Open Hermeneutics; 10.4 Muhammad )the Human Partner( and the Qur'an; 10.5 The Divine-Human Communication; 10.6 Muhammad: The First Recipient; 10.7 Muhammad in the Qur'an; 10.8 The Community of Believers and the Need for Legal Regulations; 10.9 Conclusion; Chapter 11: The Epistemology of the Truth in Modern Islam; 11.1 Submitting to Infinite Divinity; 11.2 Haqq, hikma and ma'arifa: The Epistemology of Reasonableness; 11.3 The Wisdom of Reasonableness