Toward New Democratic Imaginaries - Istanbul Seminars on Islam, Culture and Politics

Preface; Giancarlo Bosetti.- Acknowledgements; Giancarlo Bosetti.- Introduction: "Toward New Democratic Imaginaries. Istanbul Seminars on Islam, Culture and Politics"; Seyla Benhabib.- Part 1. Struggles Over Political Legitimacy: The Arab Spring; Al-Qaeda, and Gezi Park.- Foreword: "Contemporary Conflicts, Islam and Political Legitimacy"; Volker Kaul.- "The Public Visibility of Islam and the European Politics of Resentment. The Minaret-Mosques Debate" ; Nilüfer Göle.- "Creative Destruction': States, Identities and Legitimacy in the Arab World"; Lisa Anderson.- "After the Arab Spring"; Michael Walzer.- "Politics After Al-Qaeda"; Faisal Devji.- "Genie in the Bottle: Gezi Park, Taksim Square, and the Realignment of Democracy and Space in Turkey"; Ilay Romain Örs.- "All Quiet on the Kemalist Front?" ; Murat Borovali and Cemil Boyraz.- "Rethinking the 'Kurdish Question' in Turkey: Modernity, Citizenship and Democracy"; Fuat Keyman.- Part 2. Islam and Democracy in the Global Age.- Foreword: "Sources of Democracy in Islam"; Volker Kaul.- "The 'Others' in the Qur'an: A Hermeneutical Approach"; Nasr Abou Zayd.- "The Epistemology of Truth in Modern Islam"; Khaled Abou El Fadl.- "Democracy and Islam"; Irfan Ahmad.- "Islam: the Test of Globalization"; Abdelmajid Charfi.- "Whither Democracy? Religion, Politics and Islam"; Fred Dallmayr.- "Rethinking Religion and Political Legitimacy Across the Islam-West Divide"; Nader Hashemi.- "Islam and the West: Conflict, Democracy, Identity"; Akeel Bilgrami.- Part 3. Multiculturalism, Interculturalism and Multiple Modernities.- Foreword: "Political Models Accommodating Pluralism"; Volker Kaul.- "Interculturalism or Multiculturalism?"; Charles Taylor.- "Misunderstanding Cultures: Islam and the West,"; Kwame Anthony Appiah.- "Many Cultures, one Citizenship"; Alain Touraine.- "The Constant Mediation of Resentment and Retalitation"; Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im.- "The Specter Haunting Multiculturalism"; Richard J. Bernstein.- "Reflexive Pluralism"; Alessandro Ferrara.- "The Emerging Domain of the Political"; David Rasmussen.- Part 4. Gender, Culture and Islam.- Foreword: "Gender Equality and Multiculturalism"; Volker Kaul.- "Uncrossed Bridges: Islam, Feminism and Secular Democracy"; Asma Barlas.- "Women's Problems as a 'Women's Only' Problem? Debates on Gender and Democracy in Iran"; Katajun Amirpur.- "Women's Rights in Muslim Societies: Lessons from the Moroccan Experience"; Nouzha Guessous.- "The Debate on Religion, Law and Gender in Post-Revolution Tunisia"; Amel Grami.- "Faith In Law? Diffusing Tensions Between Diversity and Equality"; Ayelet Shachar.- Index.