Islam in Perspective: A Guide to Islamic Society, Politics and Law (Routledge Library Editions: Politics of Islam) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138912611 ISBN 13: 9781138912618

Publisher: Routledge, 2015

Synopsis

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 the international economic order, the relationship of Muslim countries with the superpowers and the continuation of the Arab-Israeli conflict have also served to focus attention on Islamic politics and, in particular, on the notion of Islamic reassertion.

As the author of this book argues, one result of this interest has been the development of a view of Islam as monolithic and implacable. He takes a broad view of the intellectual and cultural history of Islam, emphasising the extraordinary diversity of Islamic societies and the ways in which the ideal is often pragmatically adapted to reality. In this wider social and historical context, the nature of Islamic revival is then reassessed.

First published in 1988.

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Patrick Bannerman

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138912611
• ISBN 13: 9781138912618
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 296
• Editor: Bannerman Patrick