Islam in Global Modernity

Dr Dietrich Jung is Professor in the Department of History and Director of the Center for Modern Middle East and Muslim Studies at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU) in Odense.​

• Foreword.- By way of introduction: Islam, modernity, modernities and the "provincialisation" of Europe.- Islam and modernity: A sketch of scholarly engagement with the Middle East and Islam.- Islam and the multiplicity of modernity: Multiple, successive and intertwined modernities.- Islam and the unity of modernity: Modernity as "empty progression".- Islam and the emergence of modernity: World society as emergent social reality. Islam and the unity of modernity: modernisation as "empty progression".- Islam and the emergence of modernity: world society as emergent social reality.- Islam and the modern subject: contingency, identity and subject cultures.- Islam and modern "world culture": organisations, institutions and social actors.- In conclusion: World society and the Islamic discourse of modernity.