Sufism: a theoretical intervention in global international relations
In an effort to attain a 'global' character, the contemporary academic discipline of International Relations (IR) increasingly seeks to surpass its Eurocentric limits, thereby opening up pathways to incorporate non-Eurocentric worldviews. Lately, many of the non-Eurocentric worldviews have...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Lanham Boulder New York
Rowman & Littlefield
[2020]
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| In: | Year: 2020 |
| Series/Journal: | Global dialogues: developing non-Eurocentric IR and IPE
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Sufism
/ Reception
/ International policy
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| Further subjects: | B
World Politics
B Collection of essays B International Relations B Islam and politics B Sufism B Religion And Politics |
| Summary: | In an effort to attain a 'global' character, the contemporary academic discipline of International Relations (IR) increasingly seeks to surpass its Eurocentric limits, thereby opening up pathways to incorporate non-Eurocentric worldviews. Lately, many of the non-Eurocentric worldviews have emerged which either engender a 'derivative' discourse of the same Eurocentric IR theories, or construct an 'exceptionalist' discourse which is particularly applicable to the narrow experiential realities of a native time-space zone: as such, they fall short of the ambition to produce a genuinely 'non-derivative' and 'non-exceptionalist' Global IR theory. Against this backdrop, 'Sufism: A Theoretical Intervention in Global International Relations' performs a multidisciplinary research to explore how 'Sufism' - as an established non-Western philosophy with a remarkable temporal-spatial spread across the globe - facilitates a creative intervention in the theoretical understanding of Global IR |
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| Item Description: | Literaturverzeichnisse, Literaturhinweise |
| Physical Description: | xiii, 233 Seiten, 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 1-78661-385-9 978-1-78661-385-1 |
