WHO NEEDS A MODERATE ISLAM?
THE MUSLIM WORLD, 2004 (Scopus)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Basım Tarihi: 2004
- Dergi Adı: THE MUSLIM WORLD
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Scopus
- Açık Arşiv Koleksiyonu: AVESİS Açık Erişim Koleksiyonu
- Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
The discourse of moderate Islam, by its very nature is not an indigenous product of Muslim societies. As indicated in Bernard Weiss’s statement (Weiss, 2004), it implies an outsider’s expectation of Islam. It involves the project of changing Muslim societies or Islam according to the wishers of the Other.. It is also, even in its simplest versions, entangled with the global discourse of Islamophobia. The term moderate Islam invokes, at a political level, an instrumental form of Islam, which can help rule Muslim societies, apart from fulfilling a short-term and secondary function in drawing a clear line between itself and more ‘extreme’ forms of Islam.. At the social and cultural levels, which result mainly from political investments at the first level, it functions in some relatively complicated ways to feed cultural identities along a liberal, Christian, Western, American, and European framework.