By Bryan S. Turner,Kamaludeen Mohamed Nasir

ISBN-10: 1409462110

ISBN-13: 9781409462118

Taking a thematic process, Bryan S. Turner attracts jointly his writings which discover the connection among Islam and the tips of Western social thinkers. Turner engages with the vast different types of capitalism, orientalism, modernity, gender, and citizenship between others, as he examines how Muslims adapt to altering instances and the way Islam has emerge as controlled by way of these in power.

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