Islam, the West and the Challenges of Modernity. Tariq Ramadan

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       The Foundations History Contemporary Problems

       3. The Pitfalls

       a. The compartmentalisation of competences

       b. The absence of a political culture

       c. The absence of a political will

       d. Corruption

       III. Economic Directivess

       1. The Moral Reference

       a. Zakāt

       b. Individual spending

       c. Community life

       2. General Economic Principles in Islam

       a. Tawhīd and gerency

       b. Private property

       c. The prohibition of ribā

       3. A Profound Reform

       A. At the Local and National Level

       i. To be engaged with the population

       ii. Education: an investment

       iii. The priority of agriculture

       iv. In the cities

       v. The question of Islamic banks

       vi. Facing the powers

       B. At a Transnational Level

       i. National experiences

       ii. A united front of interests: South-South-North

       iii. Not to be mistaken about the enemy

       Part ThreeValues and Finalities The Cultural Dimension of the Civilisational Face to Face

       The Cultural Dimension

       I. Prometheus and Abraham

       1. The West: Fire, Rebellion and Tension

       2. Islam: Signs, Revelations and Submission

       3. Doubt and Reminder

       II. The Way of the Source

       1. God

       2. Spirituality

       3. Morality

       4. Meaning and Finality

       a. Communal solidarity

       b. Drugs and delinquency

       c. The man-woman relationship

       d. Science, technique and ecology

       III. Towards a War of Civilisations?

       1. Attraction-Repulsion

       a. Seduction

       b. Identity-based reaction

       c. What interlocutors?

       2. Speeches and Facts

       a. Human rights, democracy and freedom

       b. Western contradictions

       i. The Gulf War

       ii. Bosnia

       iii. Algeria

       iv. The Palestinian territories

       c. Muslim confinement

       ♦ Idealisation and simplification

       ♦ The silence of minds

       3. Fears and Hopes

       a. Fears

       b. Hopes

       Conclusion

       A Triple Liberation

       Appendices

       Appendix I: The heart present in life in order to live at the heart of the Presence

       Appendix II: The great current problems of Islam and Muslims

       Appendix III: The Western view on Islam is forged by a long history

       Appendix IV: The question of woman in the mirror of Revelation

       Index

      An Entire Life

      And that this is My path, straight; so do you follow it, and follow not diverse paths lest they scatter you from His path. (Qur’ān, 6:153)

      I still have the intimate memory of his presence and of his silences. Sometimes, long silences sunk in memory and thoughts and, often, in bitterness. He had a keen eye and a penetrating, profound look that now carried his warmth, kindness and tears, and now armed his determination, commitment and anger. How many times was it difficult forme to cross the expression of his big open, powerful, suggestive and interpolator eyes which accompanied his words up to my heart, that they awakened, troubled and shook. All those who have met him were struck by this trouble, this inward trembling. He had learned the essential and called for the same without re-routing. This, always, with a heart and with such intelligence. He was so afraid of causing harm, wounding or hurting someone’s ear. His kindness was behind his hesitations and, sometimes, clumsiness.

      Very early, I learned at his side how much the world is nourished by lies, rumours and scandal-mongering. When men lose morality they find the jungle and become wolves. Of this kind there were many around him; those who fought and sullied him for political profit, those who forgot him for professional profit and those who betrayed him for financial profit. So much was said, written and lied about: that he has met him who he never saw, that he spoke to him but he never listened СКАЧАТЬ