Overview
- Comprehensive, interdisciplinary study of the current state of the Muslim World
- Provides theoretical framework for researching Human Development internationally
- Contributors with first-hand and academic knowledge of Muslim culture and practice
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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MMCs: Political Integrity and Umma Solidarity
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Space,Power,and Human Development:Conclusions,and Recommendations
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Islam is not only a religion, but also a culture, tradition, and civilization. There are currently 1.5 billion people in the world who identify themselves as Muslim. Two thirds of the worldwide Muslim population, i.e. approximately a billion people, live in forty-eight Muslim majority countries (MMC) in the world– all of which except one are in Africa and Asia. Of these MMCs in Africa and Asia, only twelve (inhabited by about 165 million people) have ever achieved a high score on the Human Development Index (HDI), the index that measures life expectancy at birth, education and standard of living and ranks how "developed" a country is. This means that the majority of the world's Muslim population lives in poverty with low or medium level of human development.
The contributions to this innovative volume attempt to determine why this is. They explore the influence of environment, space, and power on human development. The result is a complex, interdisciplinary study of all MMCs in Africa and Asia. Â It offers new insights into the current state of the Muslim World, and provides a theoretical framework for studying human development from an interdisciplinary social, cultural, economic, environmental, political, and religious perspective, which will be applicable to regional and cultural studies of space and power in other regions of the world.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Muslim World in the 21st Century
Book Subtitle: Space, Power, and Human Development
Editors: Samiul Hasan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2633-8
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-2632-1Published: 15 January 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-8186-2Published: 24 February 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-2633-8Published: 14 January 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 364
Topics: Sociology, general, Religious Studies, general, Political Science
Industry Sectors: Engineering, Pharma