Routledge Library Editions: Politics of Islam
Arabic Thought and Islamic Societies
1st Edition
By Aziz Al-Azmeh
May 21, 2015
This is a study of the structure and composition of the official learning current in medieval Arabic culture. This comprises natural sciences both exoteric and esoteric (medicine, alchemy, astrology and others), traditional and religious sciences (such as theology, exegesis and grammar), ...
Islam and Politics in the Modern Middle East
1st Edition
Edited
By Metin Heper, Raphael Israeli
May 21, 2015
The recent resurgence of Islam in the Middle East is a far more complex phenomenon than is often suggested by those analyses which reduce recent developments in the area to no more than an intensification of religiosity. Islam and Politics in the Modern Middle East challenges that perception of the...
Islam and Power
1st Edition
Edited
By Alexander S. Cudsi, E. Hillal Dessouki
May 21, 2015
The 1970s witnessed a mushrooming of Islamic movements and ideas which was described variously as Islamic revival, Islamic resurgence and Islam on the march. Whether as part of the majority or minority, whether under capitalist or socialist regimes, Muslims have been moved by this reawakening. But ...
Islam and the Politics of Meaning in Palestinian Nationalism
1st Edition
Edited
By Nels Johnson
May 21, 2015
The intention of this book is to explore the relationship between an ideological idiom and the changing social movement in which it operates. The basic question is that of what roles an Islamic symbol complex played in different phases of the Palestinian nationalist movement, and what were the ...
Islam in Perspective: A Guide to Islamic Society, Politics and Law
1st Edition
Edited
By Patrick Bannerman
May 21, 2015
There has been a significant upsurge of western interest in the political manifestations and significance of Islam in the last decade, fuelled by the notion of Islamic ‘revival’, the Iranian revolution and by events in countries as diverse as Egypt, Pakistan and Sudan. Oil power and its effect on ...
Islam in the Modern World
1st Edition
Edited
By Denis MacEoin, Ahmed Al-Shahi
May 21, 2015
In recent years, events in the Islamic world have captured the attention of the West to an unprecedented degree. However, much of the media coverage of events like the Islamic revolution in Iran has merely reinforced current prejudices and misconceptions about Islam. This collection of essays, by ...
Islam, Economics, and Society
1st Edition
Edited
By Syed Nawab Haider Naqvi
May 21, 2015
The Islamic perception of the socio-economic process is dynamic and its insistence on social justice is uncompromising. To produce the best social structure, according to this view, man’s economic endeavours should be motivated by a meaningful moral philosophy. In the face of the challenges ...
Islamic Fundamentalism and Modernity
1st Edition
By William Montgomery Watt
May 21, 2015
Islam is a burning topic in modern scholarship and contemporary world affairs. It is a subject poorly understood by Western observers, and in this book Professor Montgomery Watt takes a significant step towards its demystification. Montgomery Watt examines the crucial questions of traditional ...
Islamic Law: Social and Historical Contexts
1st Edition
By Aziz Al-Azmeh
May 21, 2015
This book underlines the mutability of Islamic law and attempts to relate its substantive and institutional varieties and transformations to social, political, economic and other historical circumstances. The studies in the book range from discussion of the received wisdom in Islamic law to studies...
Philosophy and Science in the Islamic World
1st Edition
By C.A. Qadir
May 21, 2015
The basis of Muslim philosophy and science is the instruction buried in the Quran. At an early date this tradition was enlarged and strengthened by the infiltration into Muslim culture of Greek philosophy and science through the translation of Greek classics by Muslims. The Indian tradition of ...
Recognizing Islam: An Anthropologist's Introduction
1st Edition
By Michael Gilsenan
May 21, 2015
Islam is more than a set of laws, rites and beliefs presented as a religious and social totality. As a word it covers a multitude of everyday forms and practices that are interwoven in complex, sometimes almost invisible ways in daily existence. Drawing exclusively on his own fieldwork in Egypt, ...
The Islamization of the Law in Pakistan
1st Edition
By Rubya Mehdi
May 21, 2015
This is a detailed, critical study of the reforms which have been made in recent years to the law in the State of Pakistan with the ostensible objective of bringing it into accord with the requirements of Islam. Special emphasis is given to the period from 1977 when General Zia ul Haque adopted a ...