“Superb… A tour de force.”—Ebrahim Moosa“Provocative… Aydin ranges over the centuries to show the relative novelty of the idea of a Muslim world and the relentless efforts to exploit that idea for political ends.”—Washington PostWhen President Obama visited Cairo to address Muslims worldwide, he followed in the footsteps of countless politicians who have taken the existence of a unified global Muslim community for gra...

In this rich intellectual history, Cemil Aydin challenges the notion that anti-Westernism in modern Asia is a political and religious reaction to the liberal and democratic values of the West. Nor is anti-Westernism a natural response to Western imperialism. Instead, by focusing on the agency and achievements of non-Western intellectuals, Aydin demonstrates that modern anti-Western discourse grew out of the legitimacy crisis of a single, Eurocentric global polity in the age of high imperia...

挑戰《想像的共同體》的伊斯蘭版本共享單一價值觀、宗教、文化、全球大團結這樣的「穆斯林世界」真的存在嗎？揭開１５億人口「單一穆斯林共同體」的面紗以全球史視角解構，重新省視伊斯蘭獨家收錄中文版作者序．學界專文導讀------------「這是第一本以全球史視角取徑、伊斯蘭為主題的思想史專書。不只是做為經典，以當前國際局勢來說，本書的出版更是至為重要。」──江孟勳，本書譯者，中央研究院人文社會科學研究中心博士後研究------------如今多數人都認為，全球有一個統一的穆斯林共同體，共享單一的價值觀與宗教文化。但是，秉持伊斯蘭亞洲主義的土耳其裔學者艾丁提出了一個極為挑釁的說法：他認為，所謂全世界15億穆斯林構成的一個單一的宗教政治實體，是一種誤解。這種觀念如何產生，以及為何它如此普遍？本書追溯了這樣一個錯誤觀念的思想根源，並解釋為何這個概念對非穆斯林和穆斯林都深具吸引力。做為西方基督教文明的對立面，穆斯林...

Civilizations and World Order: Geopolitics and Cultural Difference examines the role of civilizations in the context of the existing and possible world order(s) from a cross-cultural and inter-disciplinary perspective. Contributions seek to clarify the meaning of such complex and contested notions as “civilization,” “order,” and “world order”; they do so by taking into account political, economic, cultural, and philosophical dimensions of social life. The book deals with its main theme fro...