W J Berridge

Islamism in the Modern World

A Historical Approach

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Produktbeschreibung

Islamism in the Modern World is an accessible, student-oriented introduction to the debates surrounding the historic origins of contemporary Islamism. It explores controversies surrounding contemporary Islamists' indebtedness to various European and Islamic thinkers, as well situating debates concerning the relationship between political Islam, violence and democracy in an historic context. W. J. Berridge explores the continuities, discontinuities, and the impacts of long term social, economic and political change on the nature of Islamism as an ideology. Readers are encouraged to subject the claims of current commentators to the scrutiny of historical analysis, exploring the complexities of the relationship between Islamist and European thinkers - whether classical, Renaissance or modern liberal, fascist or Marxist. The book understands political Islam in the longue durèe, comparing medieval, early modern and modern Islamist thinkers, as well as discussing the compatibility of Islamism - and, indeed, Islam itself - with supposedly 'Western' values such as democracy, feminism, and human rights. Each chapter contains a short bibliography of relevant primary and secondary sources, as well as excerpts from key sources and a glossary of Arabic terms, making this the ideal introduction to the subject for history students.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781474272827
• ISBN-10: 1474272827
• Artikelnr.: 49445192

Autorenporträt

W. J. Berridge is Lecturer in History at Newcastle University, UK. She is the author of Hasan al-Turabi: Islamist Politics and Democracy in Sudan (2017) and Civil Uprisings in Modern Sudan (2015).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Glossary 1. Introduction: Debates and Terminology 2. Sufis,
Scholars and Rebels: Classical Precedents for Contemporary Islamism 3. The
Assault on Tradition: Islamic Revivalism in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth
Centuries 4. Between Muslim Rationalism and European Colonialism: The
Islamic Reformists 5. The First Islamists: The Muslim Brotherhood,
1928-1954 6. Islamism's Chief Theoretician: Mawdudi, South Asia and the
Jama'at-i-Islami 7. Marxist Borrowings: Islamism and the Left 8.
Hate-filled Extremist or Brutalized Intellectual? Sayyid Qutb 9. The Rule
of the Jurist: Khomeini and the 1979 Revolution 10. Reformer, Radical or
Maverick? Hasan al-Turabi and Islamism in Sudan 11. Between Sharia, Custom
and Patriarchy: Islamist Views of Women, Women as Islamists 12. From
Hizbullah to the Taliban: The Militant Wave 13. The Extremist Fringe?
Al-Qa'eda, ISIS and the Dawn of Global Jihadism 14. Twenty-first Century
Abduhs? Post-Islamism, Democracy and the Arab Spring Notes Bibliography
Index