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brill.nl/mjcc MEJCC Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication 4 (2011) 3–5 © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2011 DOI 10.1163/187398611X553698 Editorial Intellectuals, Islam and Modernity Gholam Khiabany a and Tarik Sabry b a) London Metropolitan University, UK Email: g.khiabany@londonmet.ac.uk b) University of Westminster, UK Email: sabryt@wmin.ac.uk All too often, the study of ‘Islam’ and ‘Muslims’ resembles stamp collecting, carrying the danger of putting together pieces of information without consid- eration of the broader context. Associated with this perceived and constructed ‘singular community’ is the idea that Muslims form a cultural unity, based upon a common cultural core that only the Orientalist is equipped to deci- pher. Furthermore, the ‘debate’ on ‘Islam’ and ‘Muslims’ is overshadowed by false binaries and a very narrow optic of modernization dichotomies: modern vs. traditional, Islam vs. West, and secular vs. religious fundamentalism. Such binaries suppress the diversity of histories, cultures, struggles and aspirations, and conceal the real ‘divides’ in the Islamic world. Th e intention of this issue of MEJCC is to challenge the provincialism of the perceived ‘universal’ theory of culture and identity, drawing attention to the multivalent and multi-local characteristics of cultures in the Islamic world, highlighting the necessity, once again,
Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2011
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