The Issue of Understanding Muslim Culture*

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.191217.237How to use a DOI?

Keywords

globalization, localization, stereotypes and autostereotypes, Eurocentrism, Muslim civilization and culture, Islam, civilizational solidarity, knowledge centrism, Adab, Adib, Humanism, esoteric and exoteric knowledge

Abstract

The authors of the article consider the culture of Islam in the context of the two contradictory tendencies of contemporaneity: globalization and localization. Rather, globalization may be perceived as an ideal construction with the optimistic myth of progress embedded in it. At the same time, it represents empirical and ideological uncertainty which indicates the insufficiency of our knowledge and, accordingly, the understanding of the contemporary globalizing space. The coexistence and interpretation between globalization and localization, as well as the strengthening of the role of traditions, force us to go beyond mentality in the either-or dichotomy because today there is an increasing contradiction between globalization as a theory of modernization and globalization as an empirical process. Globalization has called into question the preservation and development of cultural and civilizational diversity. The authors consider it important to answer and address following issue: what do we know about Islam, Muslim civilization and Muslim cultures in the context of globalization and localization processes? The authors outline and put into context the issue from the point of view of the problem of understanding the Muslim civilization.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Nur Kirabaev
AU  - Maythem Al-Janabi
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/02/14
TI  - The Issue of Understanding Muslim Culture*
BT  - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Education, Language, Art and Inter-cultural Communication (ICELAIC 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 779
EP  - 782
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.191217.237
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.191217.237
ID  - Kirabaev2020
ER  -