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.
Description based on print version record
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