Islamic Revivalism in Syria : The Rise and Fall of Ba'thist Secularism

ISBN-13: 9780415782036 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 272 str.

Line Khatib

Opis

This text describes Syria's present day Islamic groups - particularly their social profile and ideology - as well as offering an explanation of their resurgence. It also examines the government's shift from promoting secularism to muting secularism and co-opting Islamic sectors.

Spis treści

1. Introduction to the Subject of Secularism and Islamic Revivalism in Syria  Part 1: The Origins of the Conflict  2. The Rise of a Secular Party to Power  3. The Rise and Fall of Political Islam in Syria  Part 2: Hafez al-Asad's Era and the Conflict with the Muslim Brotherhood: Muting of Ba'thist Secularism in Syria  4. Conflict with the Muslim Brotherhood  5. Resurgence of Neo-fundamentalism and Decline of Political Islam as a Model for Change (1982-2000)  Part 3: Bashar al-Asad's Era: Fundamentalist and Islamist Revivalism  6. Bashar al-Asad Following in his Father’s Footsteps: the Promotion of Moderate Islam from Above in the Name of De-Radicalization  7. Islamization from Below: Islamic Revivalism as a Model for Social Change and the Erosion of Ba´thist Secularism  8. Re-emergence of Political Islam: Syria’s Islamist Groups  9. Islamic Activism and Secularism in Syria  10. Conclusion

O autorze

Line Khatib is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the American University of Sharjah. She earned a PhD in Islamic Studies from McGill University, MA in Political Science from University of Montreal and a BA in Political Science from McGill University. She is a senior research fellow at ICAMES (the Inter-University Consortium for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies), McGill University, and a fellow at the Center for Syrian Studies, University of St Andrews. She is the author of a number of works including "Islamic Revivalism in Syria: the Rise and Fall of Ba´thist Secularism" (Routledge, 2011), and "Islamic Renewal and the Promotion of Moderate Islam from Above" (the University of St Andrews, 2012). Her research and teaching interests lie within the fields of comparative politics, religion and politics, and authoritarianism and democratization in the Arab World, with a particular focus on Islamic groups as social and political movements.