Overview
- Innovative sketch of social theory addressing fundamental questions of modernity
- Contributes to the ongoing debate about “multiple modernities”
- Valuable addition to contemporary discussions of Islam
- A quick read based on a wide array of theoretical and historical literature
Part of the book series: The Modern Muslim World (MMUS)
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“This book offers a wider ranging, theoretically nuanced and empirically rich analysis which makes an equally important contribution to social theory and Middle Eastern history. Dietrich Jung aims to re-think the existing understandings of modernity by extending the analysis beyond the Western world. Jung charts the complex and contradictory experiences of the Middle East and how this part of the world shaped, and was also shaped by, the global forces of modernity. His key argument that we are all modern, but in different ways is both persuasive and highly important.” (Professor Siniša Malešević, University College, Dublin)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Dietrich Jung is a Professor and Head of Department at the Center 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 the Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences, University of Hamburg, Germany, and has large field experience in the Muslim world. His most recent books are Orientalists, Islamists and the Global Public Sphere: A Genealogy of the Modern Essentialist Image of Islam (2011), and The Politics of Modern Muslim Subjectivities: Islam, Youth and Social Activism in the Middle East, together with Marie Juul Petersen and Sara Lei Sparre (New York: Palgrave, 2014).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Muslim History and Social Theory
Book Subtitle: A Global Sociology of Modernity
Authors: Dietrich Jung
Series Title: The Modern Muslim World
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52608-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-52607-2Published: 01 April 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84945-4Published: 21 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-52608-9Published: 24 March 2017
Series ISSN: 2945-6134
Series E-ISSN: 2945-6142
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 133
Topics: Middle Eastern Politics, Islam, Modern History, History of Religion, World History, Global and Transnational History, Global/International Culture