Between the State and Islam

ISBN-13: 9780521789721 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 272 str.

Charles E. Butterworth; I. William Zartman; Lee H. Hamilton

Opis

Heretofore, the study of the Middle East has focused almost exclusively on Islam and on the regime, especially on its nondemocratic aspects. It has done so at the expense of accounting fully for the forces of skepticism, liberty, and creativity that struggle against Islamic conformism and state hegemony. This volume examines how Middle Eastern peoples in the 19th and 20th centuries lived and flourished while trying to shape their political and religious surroundings outside the formal structures of established religion and the state.

Spis treści

Introduction: between the State and Islam Charles E. Butterworth and I. William Zartman; Part I. The Nineteenth Century: Preface Charles E. Butterworth; 1. On what is between, even beyond, the paradigms of the State and Islam Charles E. Butterworth; 2. The impact of technology change on the nineteenth-century Arab world Antoine B. Zahland; 3. An Islamic political formula in transformation: Islam, identity, and nationalism in the history of the Volga Tatars Serif Mardin; 4. Muslim opposition thinkers in the nineteenth century Said Bensaid Alaoui; Part II. The Twentieth-Century: Preface I. William Zartman; 5. Against the taboos of Islam: anti-conformist tendencies in contemporary Arab/Islamic thought As'ad AbuKhalil; 6. Democratic thought in the Arab world: an alternative to the patron state Iliya Harik; 7. Political parties between state power and Islamist opposition Ibrahim A. Karawan; 8. Liberal professionals in the contemporary Arab world Timothy J. Piro; 9. Daniel Lerner revisited, the audio-visual media and its reception: two North African cases Jean Leca, Meriem Verges and Mounia Bennani-Chraibi; 10. Islam, the state, and democracy: the contradictions I. William Zartman.