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Islam vs. Islamism : the dilemma of the Muslim world
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Islam vs. Islamism : the dilemma of the Muslim world

Author: Peter R Demant
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2006.
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Peter R Demant
ISBN: 0275990788 9780275990787
OCLC Number: 70107078
Description: xxviii, 279 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Contents: List of figures -- Foreword / Asghar Ali Engineer -- Acknowledgments -- Note on spelling -- Introduction -- Key dates -- pt. 1. Yesterday -- 1. Islam in time -- Islam : origins and historical trajectory -- Stage 1 : "Classical" Islam -- Stage 2 : The Arab Middle Ages -- Stage 3 : The era of the Muslim gunpowder empires -- The Middle East confronts the west -- Stage 4 : The Middle East under western influence -- 2. Islam in space : Islam's expansion outside the Middle East -- Muslim India -- Southeast Asia -- Sub-Saharan Asia -- 3. Islam among others : the Muslim diasporas -- Russia -- China -- Europe -- America -- 4. The other in Islam : minorities and women -- Slaves -- Non-Muslims -- Women -- pt. 2. Today -- 5. Islam and (post)modernity-- What is fundamentalism? -- The three waves of Islamism -- 6. 1967-1981 : the first Islamist wave : Qutb's Egypt and the Sunni Jihad -- Mawdudi's influence -- Sayyid Qutb's ideology -- Egypt between Jihadist terror and Islamizing accommodation -- The first wave of Jihad in the Sunni world -- 7. The 1980s : the second Islamist wave : Shiite interlude -- Who are the Shiites? -- Persia between Shiism and modernization -- The last Shah : forced modernization against popular Shiite opposition -- The Islamic revolution -- The Islamic republic -- International impact -- Post-Thermidorean Iran? -- Hizbullah -- Iraq's Shiites -- 8. 1991-2001 : the third Islamist wave : the seven marks of current Islamism -- The seven marks -- The Islamization of politics -- Islamization of the social sphere -- Islamization of culture : the "discursive field" -- Islamism's international integration -- Proliferation of Jihad fronts : Islam's frontiers outside the Arab core -- Islamist expansion in the diasporas of the Muslim West -- International war : Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda -- 2003 : the war against terror reaches Iraq -- Coda : modernist Islamic thinkers -- 9. What do the Islamists want? -- Islamism as ideology -- Islamism as a movement -- Islamism as tribalism - - Islamism as answer to urban, generational, and class crises -- Islamist strategies between charismatic leadership and institutionalization -- Between withdrawl and activism -- Half-modernity : using technology but rejecting its reason -- Results -- 10. Causes of Islamism -- Modernity's myth -- Islamism : reaction against modernity -- The failure of modernizing development : how Islamism was born -- How Islamism grows : social and psychological factors -- Is Islam more susceptible to fundamentalism? -- pt. 3. Tomorrow -- 11. Islam and the West : Clash of civilizations or transcultural dialogue? -- Internalists and externalists -- Islam and violence -- Islam and the West -- 12. The future of Islam : five dilemmas -- The critique of sources -- Homogeneity or heterogeneity -- Modernity, rationalism and science -- Democracy -- The challenge from Western Islam -- An Islamist superpower? -- Islamist revolution in a Western state? -- Concluding remarks -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.
Other Titles: Islam versus Islamism
Responsibility: Peter R. Demant ; foreword by Asghar Ali Engineer.
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