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A new book, published by The Institute of Ismaili Studies and edited by Dr Amyn B Sajoo — Muslim Modernities: Expressions of the Civil Imagination — draws attention to the rich and varied nuances of the term modernity in the context of Muslim societies.
Dr Sajoo, a specialist in international rights, civil society and public ethics, understands modernity as a plural idea: modernities. If “there is more than one way to be modern,” he says, “then the quarrel will be with one type of modernity rather than with the concept of modernity in its entirety.”
In an on-stage conversation on 2 December 2008 with writer / broadcaster Raficq Abdulla at the Ismaili Centre, London, Dr Sajoo, who lectures at the IIS where he is a Research Associate, explained how Muslim Modernities addresses core issues of identity, religion, politics, and tradition affecting Muslim societies and their relations with the rest of the world.
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