The Failure of Political Islam - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Failure of Political Islam write by Olivier Roy. This book was released on 1994. The Failure of Political Islam available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This powerful argument reassess radical Islam and the set of ideas and assumptions at its core. Olivier Roy offers a challenging and highly original view that no-one trying to understand Islamic fundamentalism can afford to overlook.
Pathways to Contemporary Islam
Pathways to Contemporary Islam - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pathways to Contemporary Islam write by Mohamed Osman. This book was released on 2020-01-09. Pathways to Contemporary Islam available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Pathways to Contemporary Islam: New Trends in Critical Engagement highlights that the current tensions in Islam and the Muslim world are the result of historical dynamics as opposed to an alleged incompatibility between religious tradition and modernity. The emphasis on pathways indicates that critical engagement and contestation have always been intrinsic to the history of Islam. The aim of the book is to elaborate the contemporary pathways and analyse the trends that contest the Islamic intellectual tradition, the relationship between religion and politics, and the individual and collective practice of religion. The collection of essays analyses the current efforts of critical re-engagement with the Islamic intellectual tradition and underlines the historical diversity of Islamic orthodoxies that led to the establishment of various pathways in the practice and role of religion in Muslim societies.
Rethinking Political Islam
Rethinking Political Islam - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rethinking Political Islam write by Shadi Hamid. This book was released on 2017. Rethinking Political Islam available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Rethinking Political Islam offers a fine-grained and definitive overview of the changing world of political Islam in the post-Arab Uprising era.
The Caliphate of Man
The Caliphate of Man - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Caliphate of Man write by Andrew F. March. This book was released on 2019-09-17. The Caliphate of Man available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A political theorist teases out the century-old ideological transformation at the heart of contemporary discourse in Muslim nations undergoing political change. The Arab Spring precipitated a crisis in political Islam. In Egypt Islamists have been crushed. In Turkey they have descended into authoritarianism. In Tunisia they govern but without the label of “political Islam.” Andrew March explores how, before this crisis, Islamists developed a unique theory of popular sovereignty, one that promised to determine the future of democracy in the Middle East. This began with the claim of divine sovereignty, the demand to restore the sharīʿa in modern societies. But prominent theorists of political Islam also advanced another principle, the Quranic notion that God’s authority on earth rests not with sultans or with scholars’ interpretation of written law but with the entirety of the Muslim people, the umma. Drawing on this argument, utopian theorists such as Abū’l-Aʿlā Mawdūdī and Sayyid Quṭb released into the intellectual bloodstream the doctrine of the caliphate of man: while God is sovereign, He has appointed the multitude of believers as His vicegerent. The Caliphate of Man argues that the doctrine of the universal human caliphate underpins a specific democratic theory, a kind of Islamic republic of virtue in which the people have authority over the government and religious leaders. But is this an ideal regime destined to survive only as theory?
Radical Arab Nationalism and Political Islam
Radical Arab Nationalism and Political Islam - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Radical Arab Nationalism and Political Islam write by Lahouari Addi. This book was released on 2018-07-01. Radical Arab Nationalism and Political Islam available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Radical Arab nationalism emerged in the modern era as a response to European political and cultural domination, culminating in a series of military coups in the mid-20th century in Egypt, Algeria, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and Libya. This movement heralded the dawn of modern, independent nations that would close the economic, social, scientific, and military gaps with the West while building a unity of Arab nations. But this dream failed. In fact, radical Arab nationalism became a barrier to civil peace and national cohesion, most tragically demonstrated in the case of Syria, for two reasons: 1) national armies militarized nationalism and its political objectives; 2) these nations did not keep pace with the intellectual and political and cultural and social progress of European nations that offered, for example, freedom of speech and thought. It was the failure of radical Arab nationalism, Addi contends, that made the more recent political Islam so popular. But if radical nationalism militarized politics, the Islamists politicized religion. Today, the prevailing medieval interpretation of Islam, defended by the Islamists, prevents these nations from making progress and achieving the kind of social justice that radical Arab nationalism once promised. Will political Islam fail, too? Can nations ruled by political Islam accommodate modernity? Their success or failure, Addi writes, depends upon this question.
