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Traces the changing trajectory of Arab politics through the Arab uprising Delving into the history of political Islam in the colonial period, this book shows how the idea of modernity, intense interaction, contestation and engagement between Islamist forces and the emerging democratic voices in the region have contributed to the recent Arab uprising. While investigating the role of religion in shaping the unfolding political situation in the Arab world it also discusses the future of political Islam.
Political Islam: A Theoretical Framework
Political Islam: A Theoretical Framework
It was the Iranian Revolution of 1979 that triggered an unending and still-in-progress debate about political Islam which introduced a new trinity—power, Islam and politics—in the global political discourse. The Iranian Revolution marked an epoch when the phrase Allah Himself was replaced by Islam and seen as a discursive tradition—what Michel Foucault later called the ...
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