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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 empirically grounded study challenges the assumptions prevalent within academic as well as policy circles about hegemonic power of such Islamic discourses and movements to penetrate all Muslim communities and societies. Through case studies of academic institutions the volume illustrates how transmission of ideas is an extremely complex process, and 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 volume focuses on the workings of three universities with global outreach, and 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.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History Regional & national history

• Full title: Shaping Global Islamic Discourses
• Author: BANO MASOODA AND SAK
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 240
• EAN: 9780748696857
• ISBN: 9780748696857
• ID: 06291485
• Publisher: EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
• Weight: 500 g
• Dimensions: 165 × 241 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 31. March 2015

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