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A Peaceful JihadA Peaceful Jihad in a Globalizing World

A Peaceful Jihad: A Peaceful Jihad in a Globalizing World [I was chatting with a few students at the Malang branch campus of the State Islamic Institute (IAIN). I was a bit surprised when one of them challenged me, “What do you think of the Huntington Hypothesis?” My surprise did not come from being challenged but from being asked about a hypothesis about which I had not heard. Somehow, in the year that I spent preparing to depart for Indonesia, I had missed Samuel Huntington’s Foreign Affairs article (1993), which elucidated a theory that since the end of the Cold War we have been moving toward a Clash of Civilizations in which the major poles were the West and Islam. What is telling is that they had not missed it; they had been carefully considering these issues and been following the intellectual developments. And not only these students, but also most Indonesian Muslims that I met, were concerned about the relationship between their nation, their faith and the West, modernization, and globalization.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Peaceful JihadA Peaceful Jihad in a Globalizing World

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Palgrave Macmillan US
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© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2005
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978-1-4039-6660-5
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119 –132
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10.1057/9781403980298_6
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[I was chatting with a few students at the Malang branch campus of the State Islamic Institute (IAIN). I was a bit surprised when one of them challenged me, “What do you think of the Huntington Hypothesis?” My surprise did not come from being challenged but from being asked about a hypothesis about which I had not heard. Somehow, in the year that I spent preparing to depart for Indonesia, I had missed Samuel Huntington’s Foreign Affairs article (1993), which elucidated a theory that since the end of the Cold War we have been moving toward a Clash of Civilizations in which the major poles were the West and Islam. What is telling is that they had not missed it; they had been carefully considering these issues and been following the intellectual developments. And not only these students, but also most Indonesian Muslims that I met, were concerned about the relationship between their nation, their faith and the West, modernization, and globalization.]

Published: Oct 10, 2015

Keywords: Religious Education; GLOBALIZING World; Islamic Country; Islamic State; Islamic Society

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