The Politics of Islamic Reassertion (RLE Politics of Islam) (Routledge Library Editions: Politics of Islam) - Hardcover

Ayoob, Mohammed

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415830850 ISBN 13: 9780415830850

Publisher: Routledge, 2013

Synopsis

The Iranian Revolution has catalysed the preconceptions holding sway in the Western World about the character of Islam and its politics, based as they are on a mixture of imagined cultural superiority and a latent fear of a resurgence similar to the Arab conquests of the seventh and eighth centuries of the long Ottoman domination of Eastern Europe.

This book constitutes a counterweight to such monolithic perceptions of Islam. It surveys the nature of opinion and of government in the larger Muslim regions of the world, and the position of Muslims in states where they are not the dominant population. Each contributor expresses his own assessment of the regional data, and the editor’s concluding chapter draws together the threads of a work which will form an important contribution to international understanding and a first breach in the ‘Green Curtain’ dividing East and West.

First published in 1981.

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Mohammed Ayoob

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415830850
• ISBN 13: 9780415830850
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 308