Islam vs. Islamism the dilemma of the Muslim world
Explores the tension within the Muslim world between modern reformers and Islamists, or Islamic fundamentalists, and examines the alarming rise of Islamism in recent years and its connection to terrorism and political violence.
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Westport, Conn. :
Praeger
2006.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b31618534*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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
- 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 extrernalists
- 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.
