ISLAM IN A CHANGING WORLD
Europe and the Middle East
ISLAM IN A CHANGING WORLD
Europe and the Middle East
Edited by
Anders Jerichow
and
Jrgen Bk Simonsen
First published in 1997
by Curzon Press
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Contents
Anders Jerichow
1 Multiple Faces of Islam
R. Hrair Dekmejian
2 The Troubled Triangle:
Populism, Islam and Civil Society in the Arab World
Saad Eddin Ibrahim
3 A Pan-Islamic Movement Unity or Fragmentation?
Shamram Chubin
4 Discourses on Human Rights and Pluralistic Democracy
Ahmad S. Moussalli
5 The Ideologization of Islam:
Meaning, Manifestations and causes
Mir Zohair Husain
6 Islamic Activism in Egypt, 19741996
NematAllah Adel Guenena
7 Civilizations: Clash or Co-operation?
Anders Jerichow
Special editorial acknowledgement to Steven Rubin.
The organizers of the Conference Islam in a Changing World Europe and the Middle East were:
Svend Aage Christensen, Director, Department of Analysis, DUPI
Henriette Rald, Conference Coordinator, DUPI
Trine Mogensen, Student of Political Science, DUPI
Michael Zilmer-Johns, Deputy Head of Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Ole Neustrup, Deputy Head of Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Dorthea Damkjr, Head of Section, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Anders Jerichow, Foreign News Editor, Politiken
Birthe Hansen, Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen
Jrgen Bk Simonsen, Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen
Co-sponsored by the European Commission
R. Hrair Dekmejian is Professor of Political Science at the University of Southern California since 1986 and Professor at the International Business and Education Program since 1992. He has written extensively on active political Islamic groups in the Arab Middle East and on political Islamic groups in Egypt in particular. Professor Dekmejian is often used as a commentator on World Affairs and as a consultant for US and international organizations.
Saad Eddin Ibrahim is Professor of Political Sociology at the American University in Cairo. President of Cairos Union of Social Professions. Trustee of the Arab Thought Forum, Jordan, Chairman of the Board of the Ibn Khaldoun Centre for Development Studies. He has taught at several universities in the United States and in the Middle East. Professor Ibrahim has been advisor in the Arab League and commented on politics.
Shahram Chubin is Executive Director of Research at the newly founded Geneva Centre for Security Policy. He has worked out comprehensive and multi-dimensional studies of Middle Eastern politics in the areas of co-operation as well as conflict. A specialist in security problems in the Middle East, Mr Chubin has been a consultant inter alia to the US Department of Defence, the Hudson Institute and the United Nations.
Ahmad S. Moussalli is Professor of Political Science at the American University of Beirut. He received his PhD from the University of Maryland, USA. He has written more than eight books including Radical Islamic Fundamentalism, which was selected by CHOICE (Journal of current reviews of academic books in the USA, 1994) as Outstanding Academic Book, and another book Islamic Fundamentalism and World Order, which was selected as a bestseller during International Book Exhibition in Beirut, 1993.
Mir Zohair Husain is Professor at the University of South Alabama, Political Science Department since 1986. He was born in Karachi, Pakistan. Professor Husain received a PhD in International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. He has acted as a guest speaker for the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia.
NematAllah Adel Guenena is Director of the Socio-economic Development department at Environmental Quality International (EQI) in Cairo since 1991. She holds an MA in Sociology/Anthropology and a BA in Middle East studies from the American Univerity in Cairo. Professor Guenena has specialized in regional development issues and special emphasis placed on socioeconomic developments in the Middle East.
Anders Jerichow is Foreign News Editor at the Danish daily Politiken. He has written extensively on Middle Eastern political and cultural issues and authored several books on political development and democratization in Muslim nations. He is a member of the board of Danish PEN.
Juan Prat is Acting Director General for External Relations. Responsible for Southern Mediterranean, Middle and Near East, Latin America, South and Southeast Asia as well as North-South Cooperation of the Commission of the European Communities. He joined the Spanish Diplomatic Service in 1968. Holds the rank of Minister Plenipotentiary.
Ellen Margrethe Lj is Permanent State Secretary of the South Group in the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She has been stationed around the world through the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Most recently she was the Ambassador to Israel. Ms Lj has also been Counsellor to the Permanent Mission to the EU and secretary to the Permanent Mission to the UN, New York.
Niels Helveg Petersen is Minister for Foreign Affairs in Denmark, appointed in January 1993. Mr Petersen has a Law degree from Copenhagen University. He has been an elected member of the Danish Parliament in two rounds (November 1966-September 1974 and February 1977-), representing the Social Liberal Party.
Henriette Rald is Conference Coordinator, DUPI, Copenhagen.
Though the world changes constantly, it evolves only belatedly. Such has been the case for Islam, and Western perceptions of Muslim traditions, values and societies. However inter-related the Christian West and the Muslim East may be, stereotypes often tend to overshadow reality, just as enemy projections are inclined to overrule mutual interest.
With these thoughts in mind, an impressive number of leading international scholars and representatives from various Arab-Muslim institutions and movements, assembled, in mid-June of 1996 in Copenhagen, to develop a dialogue, and subsequently, further an understanding of Islams place in the modern world. The conference, which was hosted by the Danish Institute of International Affairs (DUPI), and sponsored by the Danish Foreign Ministry, received widespread attention from both the public and the media.
