Understanding Political Islam

Looks at how the rise of political Islam has been expressed: first in the Arab world, then in its interactions with French and Western societies, and finally in its interactions with other European and Western societies.

List of contents

Preface to the English Edition
Introduction: Writing the History of a Research Career

Part I: Discovering the Muslim "Other"
1 Intuitive Accumulation
2 Algeria: Approaching the Other
3 Prelude in the Jamahiriyya
4 Egypt, Arabic, and Grasping Difference
5 Yemen: Modernisation Without Colonization
6 "Beneath Israel, Palestine"
7 Syria and Bilad Al-Sham

Part II: Political Islam: The stakes of an alternative interpretation
9 Being a Political Scientist of the Muslim World
10 Saving the Other's "Others": A French Obsession
11 The Political Cost of Dissent
12 Between Judges and Spooks
13 Wrestling with the Research of Others: Olivier Roy, Gilles Kepel and Islamism
14 The Charlie Hebdo Attacks: Failure of Islam-or Failure of Politics?
Conclusion: Where Do We Go Now?

About the author

François Burgat is Research Director Emeritus at the CNRS, Institut de recherches et d'études sur le monde arabe et musulman (IREMAM), Aix-en-Provence

Summary

Looks at how the rise of political Islam has been expressed: first in the Arab world, then in its interactions with French and Western societies, and finally in its interactions with other European and Western societies. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Francois Burgat, François Burgat
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781526143433
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-4343-3
• No. of pages: 248
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Soziologie, Islam, Naher und Mittlerer Osten, Sociology, Political Ideologies, Politische Ideologien, Islamische Länder, Bezug zum Islam und islamischen Gruppen, RELIGION / Islam / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern, Middle East, Islamic Studies, Islamic countries, Political ideologies and movements, Relating to Islamic / Muslim people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities