Modern Islamic Political Thought:
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Main Author: Ikeda, Daisaku (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London I.B. Tauris 2005
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Item Description:Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication page; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; On Transcription, Dates, etc.; Introduction: The relevance of the past; 1 Shī'īsm and Sunnīsm: conflict and concord; II The Polemics; I The spirit of Shī'īsm; 2 The crisis over the Caliphate; 3 The concept of the Islamic state; II Fundamentalism; I Muhammad Rashid Rida; 4 Nationalism, democracy and socialism; III Socialism; II Democracy; I Nationalism; 5 Aspects of Shī'ī modernism; III Martyrdom; II Taqiyyah; I Constitutionalism; Background; References; Endnote
The revival and power of religious feelings among Muslims since the Iranian revolution presents a complicated and often perplexing picture of the politics of the Islamic world in the modern era. What are the ideas which have influenced the direction of these trends? In this book, which since its original publication has established itself as a seminal work, Hamid Enayat provides an answer by describing and interpreting some of the major Islamic political ideas. He also examines the concept of the Islamic state, and the Muslim response to the challenge of alien and modern ideologies such as nat
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (423 pages)
ISBN:0857721097
0857731467
9780857721099
9780857731463

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