Islamic Modernities in World Society

Dietrich Jung is Professor and Head of the Centre for Contemporary Middle East Studies, University of Southern Denmark. He holds a MA in Political Science and Islamic Studies, as well as a Ph.D. from University of Hamburg, Germany. He was a fellow at the University of Victoria, the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton, the International Islamic University Malaysia, the National University of Singapore, the University of Leipzig and the University of the Bundeswehr in Munich. His most recent books are Muslim History and Social Theory: A Global Sociology of Modernity, Palgrave (2017), Muslim Subjectivities in Global Modernity. Islamic Traditions and the Construction of Modern Muslim Identities, edited with Kirstine Sinclair, Brill (2020) and Der Islam in der Globalen Moderne. Soziologische Theorie und die Vielfalt islamischer Modernitäten, Springer (2021).

A lively book in which social theory and observation flows effortlessly to tell the story of how Muslims across multiple continents navigate the challenges of modernity. Dietrich Jung is an astute observer, and what the author dubs as his 'last act' on the topic of Muslim peoples' encounter with modernity will no doubt spur productive debate and conversation.

• Series Editor’s ForewordIntroduction: Why This Book and What is Its Argument?Part I. State of the Art and Theoretical Framework1. Islam and Modernity: A Brief Discussion of the State of the Art2. The Emergence of World Society: Projects of Modernity in Global Social ContextsPart II. Modern State Formation and the Islamic Discourse of Modernity3. From Empire to National States: Modernisation in the Ottoman Empire4. Making Modernity Islamic: The Quest for Religious, Political and Social Reform5. Diverging Directions: Secularist and Islamist Projects of Muslim ModernitiesPart III. Economics, Science and Agency in the Islamic Discourse of Modernity6. Boundary Negotiation between Islam and Science: The Islamisation of Knowledge and the Idea of an Islamic University7. Boundary Negotiations between Islam and Economics: Islamic Finance, Halal Markets and the Muslim Entrepreneur8. Multiple Jihads: Modern Social Actorhood in the Name of IslamConclusions: The Mosaic of Islamic ModernitiesBibliographyIndex