State Politics and Islam
Author | : Mumtaz Ahmad |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Mumtaz Ahmad |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Iza R. Hussin |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2016-03-31 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 022632348X |
In The Politics of Islamic Law, Iza Hussin compares India, Malaya, and Egypt during the British colonial period in order to trace the making and transformation of the contemporary category of ‘Islamic law.’ She demonstrates that not only is Islamic law not the shari’ah, its present institutional forms, substantive content, symbolic vocabulary, and relationship to state and society—in short, its politics—are built upon foundations laid during the colonial encounter. Drawing on extensive archival work in English, Arabic, and Malay—from court records to colonial and local papers to private letters and visual material—Hussin offers a view of politics in the colonial period as an iterative series of negotiations between local and colonial powers in multiple locations. She shows how this resulted in a paradox, centralizing Islamic law at the same time that it limited its reach to family and ritual matters, and produced a transformation in the Muslim state, providing the frame within which Islam is articulated today, setting the agenda for ongoing legislation and policy, and defining the limits of change. Combining a genealogy of law with a political analysis of its institutional dynamics, this book offers an up-close look at the ways in which global transformations are realized at the local level.
Author | : Berna Turam |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780804755016 |
Examines how shifting power dynamics between the state and Islamic forces during the 1990s have transformed both Islam and the Turkish state.
Author | : Peter Mandaville |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 563 |
Release | : 2010-07-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134341350 |
An accessible and comprehensive account of the global dimensions of political Islam in the twenty-first century, explaining political Islam, nationalism and globalization and providing a detailed account of Al Qaeda.
Author | : A. Afsaruddin |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2011-12-05 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1137002026 |
The expert essays in this volume deal with critically important topics concerning Islam and politics in both the pre-modern and modern periods, such as the nature of government, the relationship between politics and theology, Shi'i conceptions of statecraft, notions of public duty, and the compatibility of Islam and democratic governance.
Author | : Robert W. Hefner |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1997-09-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 082486302X |
The renewal of the Muslim faith, which has occurred not only in Asia but in other parts of the world, has prompted warnings of an imminent "clash of civilizations" between Islam and the West. Islam in an Era of Nation-States examines the history, politics, and meanings of this resurgence in Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines and explores its implications for Southeast Asia, the larger Muslim world, and the West. This volume will be of interest to students of Islam, Southeast Asian history, and the anthropology of religion. In examining the politics and meanings of Islamic resurgence, it will also speak to political scientists, religious scholars, and others concerned with culture and politics in the late modern era.
Author | : Wael B. Hallaq |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2012-11-20 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0231530862 |
Wael B. Hallaq boldly argues that the "Islamic state," judged by any standard definition of what the modern state represents, is both impossible and inherently self-contradictory. Comparing the legal, political, moral, and constitutional histories of premodern Islam and Euro-America, he finds the adoption and practice of the modern state to be highly problematic for modern Muslims. He also critiques more expansively modernity's moral predicament, which renders impossible any project resting solely on ethical foundations. The modern state not only suffers from serious legal, political, and constitutional issues, Hallaq argues, but also, by its very nature, fashions a subject inconsistent with what it means to be, or to live as, a Muslim. By Islamic standards, the state's technologies of the self are severely lacking in moral substance, and today's Islamic state, as Hallaq shows, has done little to advance an acceptable form of genuine Shari'a governance. The Islamists' constitutional battles in Egypt and Pakistan, the Islamic legal and political failures of the Iranian Revolution, and similar disappointments underscore this fact. Nevertheless, the state remains the favored template of the Islamists and the ulama (Muslim clergymen). Providing Muslims with a path toward realizing the good life, Hallaq turns to the rich moral resources of Islamic history. Along the way, he proves political and other "crises of Islam" are not unique to the Islamic world nor to the Muslim religion. These crises are integral to the modern condition of both East and West, and by acknowledging these parallels, Muslims can engage more productively with their Western counterparts.
Author | : Rachel Scott |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2010-04-23 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0804769052 |
Based on Islamist writings, political tracts, and interviews with Islamists, this book examines Muslim-Christian relations in Egypt from the perspective of Islamic conceptions of citizenship, and provides non-Muslim responses to those views.
Author | : Ann K. S. Lambton |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2013-10-28 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1136605215 |
First published in 2004. For the Muslim the foundation from which all discussion of government starts is the law of God, the sharī‘a. Theoretically pre-existing and eternal, it represents absolute good. It is prior to the community and the state.‘ Part of London Oriental Series, this volume’s concern wis with the political ideas of the period extending from the 2nd/8th century to the 11th/17th century and to the central lands of the caliphate, including Persia, and North Africa.
Author | : P. J. Vatikiotis |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 2016-11-18 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1315414430 |
Examining the theoretical problems which arose when the modern European ideology of nationalism was adopted by Muslim societies organized into formally modern states, this book, first published in 1987, also deals with the practical difficulties arising from the doctrinal incompatibility between Islam and the non-Muslim concept of the territorial nation-state. It illustrates this conflict with a consideration of the record of several states in the Islamic world. It suggests that whereas the state, an organization of power, has been a most durable institution in Islamic history, the legitimacy of the nation-state has always been challenged in favour of the wide Islamic Nation, the "umma", which comprises all the faithful without reference to territorial boundaries. To this extent too, the more recent conception of Arab nationalism projects a far larger nation-state than the existing territorial states in the Arab world today. This title will be of interest to students of Middle Eastern studies.