Rethinking Islamist Politics - Culture, the State and Islamism

Informationen zum Autor Salwa Ismail is Director of the Middle East Politics Programmes in the Department of Politics at the University of Exeter. Klappentext In "Rethinking Islamic Politics!" Salwa Ismail proposes a whole new way of examining the political culture of Islamism. She revisits the main arguments and explanations that have been used over the past 20 years to understand Islamist activism! moderate as well as militant! and proposes a rethinking of Islamist politics. This text revisits the main arguments and explanatory frameworks that have been used since the 1970s to understand Islamic activism, moderate as well as militant and violent, and proposes a rethinking of Islamist politics. Zusammenfassung This text revisits the main arguments and explanatory frameworks that have been used since the 1970s to understand Islamic activism, moderate as well as militant and violent, and proposes a rethinking of Islamist politics. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface vii 1 The Study of Islamism Revisited 1 2 Confronting the Other: Conservative Islamism in Egypt 27 3 Religious 'Orthodoxy' as Public Morality: The State! Islamism and Cultural Politics in Egypt 58 4 Contemporary Islamism as a Popular Movement: Socio-Spatial Determinants in the Cairo Urban Setting 82 5 Islamist Politics in Algeria and Tunisia: A State-Society Perspective 114 6 The Paradox of Islamist Politics 160 Notes 177 Bibliography 221 Index 241

Product details

• Authors: Salwa Ismail, Ismail Salwa
• Publisher: Tauris, I.B.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.03.2003
• EAN: 9781860644689
• ISBN: 978-1-86064-468-9
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Islam, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, RELIGION / Islam / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern, Middle East, Political activism, Islamic Studies, Relating to Islamic / Muslim people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities, Political activism / Political engagement