Religion and politics Islam and Muslim civilization /

Lane, Jan-Erik

Religion and politics Islam and Muslim civilization / [electronic resource] : Jan-Erik Lane, Hamadi Redissi ; with a chapter by Riadh Sidaoui - 2nd ed. - Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub. Co., c2009 - 1 online resource (xvii, 336 p.) : ill.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-327) and index

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


Mode of access: Internet

9780754691761 (electronic bk.) 0754691764 (electronic bk.) 9786612091759 6612091754 9780754674184 (alk. paper) 0754674185 (alk. paper)


Islamic civilization
Islam--History
East and West

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