Contents
Contents
Introduction: The Other Futurist
1. Rethinking Islam
2. Reconstructing Muslim Civilisation
3. Permanence and Change in Islam
4. The Shari'ah as a Problem- Solving Methodology
5. Islam and Nationalism
6. Paper, Printing and Compact Discs: The Making and Unmaking of Islamic Culture
7. Reformist Ideas and Muslim Intellectuals: The Demands of the Real World
8. When the Pendulum Comes to Rest
9. Walt Disney and the Double Victimisation of Pocahontas
10. The Ethical Connection: Christian Muslim Relations in the Postmodern Age
11. Total Recall: Aliens, Others and Amnesia in Postmodern Thought
12. Bosnia and the Postmodern Embrace of Evil
13. Postmodern( ising) Qawwali
14. The End of Civilisation?
15. The Problem of Futures Studies
16. Asian Cultures: Between Programmed and Desired Futures
17. Other Futures: Non- Western Cultures in Futures Studies
18. Healing the Multiple Wounds: Medicine in a Multicultural Society
19. Beyond Development: An Islamic Perspective
20. What Chaos? What Coherence? Across the River I Called
Ziauddin Sardar: A Working Bibliography