Louay M. Safi

Tensions and Transitions in the Muslim World

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Tensions and Transitions in the Muslim World provides an alternative reading of Middle Eastern politics and political culture by focusing on the dynamics of change, and examining the role of Islam in the emerging modern Middle East. Louay Safi contends that by focusing on radical and traditionalist Islam, Middle East specialists often overlook the liberal manifestations of Islam, which, though marginalized, constitute the driving force in the sociopolitical development of the Middle East.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of America
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 352g
• ISBN-13: 9780761827221
• ISBN-10: 0761827226
• Artikelnr.: 21427902

Autorenporträt

Louay Safi is Director of Research for the International Institute of Islamic Thought, Editor of the American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, and author of The Challenge of Modernity: The Quest for Authenticity in the Arab World (University Press of America, 1994).

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Introduction Chapter 3 Democratization and the
Islamic State: Islam and the Secular State; State and Society in
Traditional Islam Chapter 4 Visions of Reform: Competing Visions of Reform;
Arab Nationalism: Forging a New Political Identity; Islamic Reform and
Radicalism Chapter 5 Islam Law and Human Rights: Islamic Law (Shari'ha) and
Society; Human Rights and Islamic Legal Reform; Human Rights and
Cross-Cultural Dialogue Chapter 6 Islam in a Global Order: Islam and the
West: Resurgence and Ambivalence Chapter 7 Appendix A: The Covenant of
Medina; Appendix B: Universal Declaration of Human Rights; Appendix C:
Universal Islamic Declaration of Human Rights Chapter 8 Notes Chapter 9
Glossary Chapter 10 Index Chapter 11 Bibliography