| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 358 pages) |
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Princeton studies in Muslim politics |
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Princeton studies in Muslim politics.
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Introduction : Modernity and the remaking of Muslim politics / Robert W. Hefner -- New media in the Arab Middle East and the emergence of open societies / Dale F. Eickelman -- Pluralism, democracy, and the ʻUlama / Muhammad Qasim Zaman -- The end of Islamism? Turkey's Muslimhood model / Jenny B. White -- Dilemmas of reform and democracy in the Islamic Republic of Iran / Bahman Baktiari -- Thwarted politics : the case of Egypt's Hizb al-Wasat / Augustus Richard Norton -- Rewriting divorce in Egypt : reclaiming Islam, legal activism, and coalition politics / Diane Singerman -- Empowering civility through nationalism : reformist Islam and belonging in Saudi Arabia / Gwenn Okruhlik -- An Islamic state is a state run by good Muslims : religion as a way of life and not an ideology in Afghanistan / Thomas Barfield -- Islam and the cultural politics of legitimacy : Malaysia in the aftermath of September 11 / Michael G. Peletz -- Muslim democrats and Islamist violence in post-Soeharto Indonesia / Robert W. Hefner -- Sufis and Salafis : the political discourse of transnational Islam / Peter Mandaville -- Pluralism and normativity in French Islamic reasoning / John R. Bowen |
| Summary |
There is a struggle for the hearts and minds of Muslims unfolding across the Islamic world. The conflict pits Muslims who support pluralism and democracy against others who insist such institutions are antithetical to Islam. With some 1.3 billion people worldwide professing Islam, the outcome of this contest is sure to be one of the defining political events of the twenty-first century. Bringing together twelve engaging essays by leading specialists focusing on individual countries, this pioneering book examines the social origins of civil-democratic Islam, its long-term prospects, its implicat |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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This edition in English |
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Islam and politics -- Islamic countries
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Islamic renewal -- Islamic countries
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Religion and politics -- Islamic countries
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11.84 Islam: other.
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89.39 political systems: other.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Islamic Studies.
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Religion and politics
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Islam and politics
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Islamic renewal
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Politics and government
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Demokratie
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Modernisierung
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Moderne
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Islam
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Politik
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Islam.
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Politiek.
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Islam and politics -- Islamic countries
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Islamic renewal -- Islamic countries
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| SUBJECT |
Islamic countries -- Politics and government -- 20th century
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Islamic countries
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Islamic countries -- Politics and government -- 20th century
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hefner, Robert W., 1952-
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| LC no. |
2004050522 |
| ISBN |
9781400826391 |
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140082639X |
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1282158562 |
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9781282158566 |
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9786612158568 |
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6612158565 |
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