Religion and politics Islam and Muslim civilization /

• Main Author: Lane, Jan-Erik.
• Other Authors: Redissi, Hamadi., Ṣaydāwī, Riyāḍ.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub. Co., c2009.
• Edition: 2nd ed.
• Subjects: Islamic civilization.; Islam > History.; East and West.; Civilization, Islamic.; HISTORY > General.; Islam.; Modernisierung.; Electronic books.
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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...

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.