Religion and politics [electronic resource] : Islam and Muslim civilization / Jan-Erik Lane, Hamadi Redissi ; with a chapter by Riadh Sidaoui.

Offering a timely new appraisal of the political and social impact of Islam, this expanded second edition of Religion and Politics has been fully updated in line with new events. Jan-Erik Lane and Hamadi Redissi look at the underlying social consequences of religious beliefs to account for the polit...

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Main Author: Lane, Jan-Erik
Other Authors: Redissi, Hamadi, Ṣaydāwī, Riyāḍ
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub. Co., ©2009.
Edition:2nd ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • Modernity, post-modernity and the Muslim world
  • Islam and post-modernity
  • The Weber thesis
  • Mohammed
  • a political prophet
  • Islam: faith and rationality
  • Traditional domination
  • Islamic law and Arab legal institutions
  • Capitalism in Muslim countries
  • The modernisation of Arabia
  • Separation between state and religion?
  • Towards a new fundamentalism
  • Islam and democracy
  • Islam and politics: where the principal difficulty of post-modernity lies
  • Religion and human rights: constants and constraints
  • Islamic politics and the military: Algeria 1962-2008
  • Islam
  • a religion of warriors?
  • Fundamentalism and the state: need for mutual explanation.