Islam and the political theory, governance and international relations /

• Main Author: Sabet, Amr G. E.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: London ; Ann Arbor, MI : Pluto Press, c2008.
• Series: Decolonial studies, postcolonial horizons.
• Subjects: Islam and state.; Islam and politics.; POLITICAL SCIENCE > General. > Political Ideologies; RELIGION > Theology. > Islam; Islam.; Politieke ideeën.; Liberalismus.; Menschenrecht.; Sozialer Wandel.; Politik.; Islamic countries > Politics and government.; Islamitische wereld.; Electronic books.
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This book compares Islamic and Western political formulations, highlighting areas of agreement and disparity. Building on this analysis, the author goes on to show that political Islam offers a serious alternative to the dominant political system and ideology of the West.Sabet argues that rather tha...

Table of Contents:

• Religion, politics, and social change : a theoretical framework
• Islam and the appropriation of modernity
• Wilayat al-Faqih : an Islamic theory of elite hegemony or, Assabiyyat al-Khawass
• The Islamic paradigm of nations : toward a neoclassical approach
• Islam, Iran, and western discourse : behind the democratic veil
• Liberalism and the contestation of Islamic sovereignty
• Human rights : a double discourse of power
• Interview / conducted by Cemalettin Hashimi, Shehla Khan, and Nuh Yilmaz.