Shaping Global Islamic Discourses: The Role of al-Azhar, al-Medina and al-Mustafa
Masooda Bano and Keiko Sakurai
Abstract
Claims abound that Saudi oil money is fuelling Salafi Islam in cultural and geographical terrains as disparate as the remote hamlets of the Swat valley in Pakistan and sprawling megacities such as Jakarta. In a similar manner, it is often regarded as a fact that Iran and the Sunni Arab states are fighting proxy wars in foreign lands. This book challenges the assumptions prevalent within academic as well as policy circles about the hegemonic power of such Islamic discourses and movements to penetrate all Muslim communities and societies. Through case studies of academic institutions, the book i ... More
Claims abound that Saudi oil money is fuelling Salafi Islam in cultural and geographical terrains as disparate as the remote hamlets of the Swat valley in Pakistan and sprawling megacities such as Jakarta. In a similar manner, it is often regarded as a fact that Iran and the Sunni Arab states are fighting proxy wars in foreign lands. This book challenges the assumptions prevalent within academic as well as policy circles about the hegemonic power of such Islamic discourses and movements to penetrate all Muslim communities and societies. Through case studies of academic institutions, the book illustrates how transmission of ideas is an extremely complex process, and shows that the outcome of such efforts depends not just on the strategies adopted by backers of those ideologies but equally on the characteristics of the receipt communities. In order to understand this complex interaction between the global and local Islam and the plurality in outcomes, the book focuses on the workings of three universities with global outreach whose graduating students carry the ideas acquired during their education back to their own countries, along with, in some cases, a zeal to reform their home society.
Keywords:
Saudi oil money,
Salafi Islam,
Iran,
Muslim community,
Muslim society,
global Islam,
local Islam
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2015 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780748696857 |
| Published to Edinburgh Scholarship Online: January 2018 |
DOI:10.3366/edinburgh/9780748696857.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Masooda Bano, editor
University of Oxford
Keiko Sakurai, editor
Waseda University
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