Knowledge Production, Area Studies and Global Cooperation

Claudia Derichs is Professor of Comparative Politics and International Development Studies at Philipps University Marburg, Germany, and a senior associate fellow at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg/Centre for Global Cooperation Research in Duisburg, Germany. Her research interests are Muslim societies and political transition in Southeast Asia and the Middle East, as well as gender and development studies in Asia and the Middle East. She has published various books and articles on Malaysia, Indonesia, Japan and the Arab world, and is an advisor to several academic and political institutions, journals and think tanks. Prior to her studies of Japanese and Arabic, she worked as a journalist.

• Introduction: Knowledge Production, Area Studies and Global CooperationThe problem of defining knowledgeArea studies and disciplinesKnowledge production, international relations and global cooperationPart I: Alternative Epistemologies The Islamisation of KnowledgeNaguib Al-Attas: Islam and secularismIsma’il Al-Faruqi: the tauhîdic worldviewSeyyed Hossein Nasr: sacred scienceFazlur Rahman: Islam and modernityEvaluations of the Islamisation of knowledge projectIoK as a project of its time Review: Spill-over and diffusionIslamic resurgenceIslamisation in education and its political reception in Malaysia and IndonesiaPrimary to tertiary educationCampus dakwahMalaysiaIndonesia and the tarbiyah movementTransregional connectionsDiffusion into policymaking and economic practiceLaws and verdicts Female perspectives on "Islamised" policymakingDiffusion into economyConclusion Empirical case studies: Islamic economy and Islamic feminismAssessing religion, economy and advocacyCommodification, commercialization and aestheticisation of religionThe Islamisation of knowledge and its repercussionsDomestic political contextsBeyond domestic politicsIslamic economy and sharî’aised workplacesGender justice and transnational Islamic feminismPulling the strings togetherPart II: Areas and Pluri-Locality At Home Away from Home (Emotional Geographies)Trans- and pluri-local settingsKnowledge entrepreneursTrans- and pluri-local networks Translocal areas Conclusion Tunnel Views in Area StudiesCritical assessments of area studiesScales and geographiesAreas and disciplines in postcolonial perspectiveConclusion Connectivity and Cooperation: Concluding ThoughtsCooperation on a global levelThe cooperation hexagon and meccanomicsReligion and international cooperationEpistemic approaches and behavioural dimensionsKnowledge production, area studies and global cooperation