Islam vs. Islamism : the dilemma of the Muslim world / Peter R. Demant ; foreword by Asghar Ali Engineer.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Demant, Peter R., 1951-
Language:English
Published: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2006.
Subjects:
Islam > 21st century.
Islamic renewal > Islamic countries.
Islamic fundamentalism > Islamic countries.
Islam and politics > Islamic countries.
Islamic countries > Politics and government.
Religious awakening > Islam.
Islamismo.
Islamismo (política)
Conflitos internacionais.
Política internacional.
Islam.
Conflicten.
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Physical Description:xxviii, 279 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Variant Title:
Islam versus Islamism.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • List of figures
  • Foreword / Asghar Ali Engineer
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on spelling
  • Introduction
  • Key dates
  • pt. 1. Yesterday
  • 1. Islam in time
  • Islam : origins and historical trajectory
  • Stage 1 : "Classical" Islam
  • Stage 2 : The Arab Middle Ages
  • Stage 3 : The era of the Muslim gunpowder empires
  • The Middle East confronts the west
  • Stage 4 : The Middle East under western influence
  • 2. Islam in space : Islam's expansion outside the Middle East
  • Muslim India
  • Southeast Asia
  • Sub-Saharan Asia
  • 3. Islam among others : the Muslim diasporas
  • Russia
  • China
  • Europe
  • America
  • 4. The other in Islam : minorities and women
  • Slaves
  • Non-Muslims
  • Women
  • pt. 2. Today
  • 5. Islam and (post)modernity-- What is fundamentalism?
  • The three waves of Islamism
  • 6. 1967-1981 : the first Islamist wave : Qutb's Egypt and the Sunni Jihad
  • Mawdudi's influence
  • Sayyid Qutb's ideology
  • Egypt between Jihadist terror and Islamizing accommodation
  • The first wave of Jihad in the Sunni world
  • 7. The 1980s : the second Islamist wave : Shiite interlude
  • Who are the Shiites?
  • Persia between Shiism and modernization
  • The last Shah : forced modernization against popular Shiite opposition
  • The Islamic revolution
  • The Islamic republic
  • International impact
  • Post-Thermidorean Iran?
  • Hizbullah
  • Iraq's Shiites
  • 8. 1991-2001 : the third Islamist wave : the seven marks of current Islamism
  • The seven marks
  • The Islamization of politics
  • Islamization of the social sphere
  • Islamization of culture : the "discursive field"
  • Islamism's international integration
  • Proliferation of Jihad fronts : Islam's frontiers outside the Arab core
  • Islamist expansion in the diasporas of the Muslim West
  • International war : Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda
  • 2003 : the war against terror reaches Iraq
  • Coda : modernist Islamic thinkers
  • 9. What do the Islamists want?
  • Islamism as ideology
  • Islamism as a movement
  • Islamism as tribalism - - Islamism as answer to urban, generational, and class crises
  • Islamist strategies between charismatic leadership and institutionalization
  • Between withdrawl and activism
  • Half-modernity : using technology but rejecting its reason
  • Results
  • 10. Causes of Islamism
  • Modernity's myth
  • Islamism : reaction against modernity
  • The failure of modernizing development : how Islamism was born
  • How Islamism grows : social and psychological factors
  • Is Islam more susceptible to fundamentalism?
  • pt. 3. Tomorrow
  • 11. Islam and the West : Clash of civilizations or transcultural dialogue?
  • Internalists and externalists
  • Islam and violence
  • Islam and the West
  • 12. The future of Islam : five dilemmas
  • The critique of sources
  • Homogeneity or heterogeneity
  • Modernity, rationalism and science
  • Democracy
  • The challenge from Western Islam
  • An Islamist superpower?
  • Islamist revolution in a Western state?
  • Concluding remarks
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index.