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Islamski svijet i modernost
Islamic World and Modernity

Author(s): Fahrudin Novalić
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Hrvatsko Filozofsko Društvo
Keywords: identity; islamic world; modernity; development; tradition

Summary/Abstract: Islamic world, during of the modernization of West, has stagnated. In the best case, it has, step by step, maked progress. Spectrum of contemporary societies of islamic world is very different – from traditional to demokratic of societies. Tradition and modernity can be in common, if a modernization autonomic work and if an old doesn’t destroy, than transforms. Without one’s own of reflexion and of autonomic modernization, islamic world will be poor and undeveloped world as and all poor countries during of planetary domination of neoliberalism and mondialization of west modernity; then on the understandings of islamic conservatism. By autonomic modernization, islamic world will become more powerful and more respectable subject of global communication. It should make some suppositions for a overcoming of islamic conservatism, too.

  • Issue Year: 28/2008
  • Issue No: 04/112
  • Page Range: 869-896
  • Page Count: 28
  • Language: Croatian