Tibi, Bassam.

Islam in global politics : conflict and cross-civilizational bridging / Bassam Tibi. - Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2012. - xi, 228 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface -- The inter-civilizational conflict in world politics -- Inter-cultural dialogue as a global communication in pursuit of bridging -- The new intercivilizational Cold War of ideas and alternatives to it -- What Islam for bridging? the heterogeneity of civilizations as a background for the plea to revive the grammar of Islamic humanism -- Euro-Islam as a vision for bridging: a liberal and secular Islam for the Islamic diaspora in Europe -- The inter-civilizational conflict, bridging and critical theory -- The Western third-worldist romantizication of Islamism and beyond -- From conflict to bridgings.

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Islam and world politics.
Culture conflict--Religious aspects--Islam.
Islam and humanism.


Islamic countries--Relations--Europe
Europe--Relations--Islamic countries.
Islamic countries--Relations--Western countries.
Western countries--Relations--Islamic countries