This innovative book analyzes the relationship between religion and politics in the Middle East through a comparative study of five countries: Egypt, Israel, Turkey, Iran, and Saudi Arabia. Robert D. Lee examines each country in terms of four domains in which state and religion necessarily interact: national identity, ideology, institutions, and political culture. In each domain he considers contradictory hypotheses, some of them asserting that religion is a positive force for political development and others identifying it as an obstacle. Among the questions the book confronts: Is...
This innovative book analyzes the relationship between religion and politics in the Middle East through a comparative study of five countries: Egypt, ...
?Authenticity? has begun to rival ?development? as a key to understanding the political aspirations of the Islamic world. Almost everywhere modernity has laid waste to tradition, those habits and practices deemed to be timeless and true. Imperialism carried European notions of progress into Muslim-dominated parts of the globe, and subsequently Musl
?Authenticity? has begun to rival ?development? as a key to understanding the political aspirations of the Islamic world. Almost everywhere modernity ...
