Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-410) and index.; Debates on Civilization, Islam, and Modernity: Some Critical Perspectives on the Current Agenda / Lutfi Sunar -- PART I. DEFINING AND DISCUSSING CIVILIZATION. 1. The Idea of Civilization in Eighteenth-Century Social Theory / Anthony Pagden -- 2. Rethinking Civilization and Its Others: Historical Stages and Social Taxonomies / Lutfi Sunar -- 3. The Question of Ages in Islamic Civilization: A Different Periodization / Mustafa Demirci -- PART II. DEBATES ON CIVILIZATION IN THE CONTEMPORARY MUSLIM WORLD. 4. The Vision of Order and Al-'Umran as an Explanatory Concept in the Debates on Civilization / Vahdettin I,sik -- 5. Beyond Civilization: Pan-Islamism, Pan-Asianism, and the Revolt against the West / Cemil Aydin -- 6. Interaction of Concepts of Progress and Civilization in Turkish Thought / Necmettin Dogan -- 7. The Rise and Demise of Civilizational Thinking in Contemporary Muslim Political Thought / Halil Ibrahim Yenigun -- 8. Revisiting Shariati: Probing into Issues of Society and Religion / Seyed Javad Miri -- 9. Culture and Civilization in the Thought of Alija Izetbegovic / Mahmut Hakki Akin -- 10. Debating Islam, Tradition, and Modernity in Contemporary Arab-Islamic Thought: Perspectives of Hassan Hanafi and Abdallah / Laroui Driss Habti -- PART III. MODERNIZATION, GLOBALIZATION, AND THE FUTURE OF THE CIVILIZATION DEBATE. 11. Erring Modernization and Development in the Muslim World / Syed Farid Alatas -- 12. Civilizations in an Era of Globalization: The Implications of Globalization for the Clash of Civilizations Debate / Yunus Kaya -- 13. Conceptualizing Civilization between Othering and Multiculturalism / Murat Cemrek -- 14. An Epistemological Base for a Dynamic Conception of Civilizations and Intercultural Relations / Khosrow Bagheri Noaparast;