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ajiss-360	Farouk-Alli, Aslam	When Words Collide: Islam and Modernity – Alternative Paradigms, Contrasting Authentic Ideals	2010.0	19	.pdf	application/pdf	8110	305	42	For him, it is far more apt to speak of “multiple modernities,” the plural reflecting the fact that other non-western cultures have modernized in their own way and can- not properly be understood if we try to grasp them in a general theory that was designed originally with only the western case in mind.6 Taylor elabo- rates further, arguing that from this view western modernity is inseparable from a certain kind of social imaginary and that the differences among alter- native paradigms need to be understood in terms of the divergent social imaginaries involved. Elmessiri, one of the few Islamic scholars who has seriously interro- gated the notion of secularism at a metacritical level, contends that the identity of western modernity is more in keeping with what he refers to as comprehensive secularism.	cache/ajiss-360.pdf	txt/ajiss-360.txt