Political Islam and Human Security - Hardcover

Shahram Akbarzadeh; Fethi Mansouri

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1847180388 ISBN 13: 9781847180384

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007

Synopsis

In the wake of the September 11 and subsequent terrorist attacks, the academic and media commentaries on Islam the religion and Islam the basis for political ideology haves received an unprecedented high level of exposure and attention. The acts of political violence by extremist groups and the omnipresent war on terror have added fresh uncertainties to an already complex global order. Just as terrorism and counter-terrorism are locked in a mutually re-enforcing symbiosis, the sense of insecurity felt by Muslims and non-Muslims alike is mutually dependent and has the potential to escalate. This general assessment holds true for Muslims living in the Muslim world and beyond. The pervasive sense of being under attack physically and culturally by the United States and its allies has contributed to a growing unease among Muslims and re-enforced deep-seated mistrust of the West . Public articulation of such misgivings has in turn, lent credence to Western observers who posit an inherent antipathy between the West and the Muslim world. The subsequent policies that have emerged in this context of fear and mutual distrust have contributed to the vicious cycle of insecurity. The present volume is anchored in the current debates on the uneasy and potentially mutually destructive relationship between the Muslim world and certain West countries. It brings together leading international scholars in this interdisciplinary field to deal with such inter-related questions as the nature of Islamism, the impact of the war on terror on the spread of militancy, the growing sense of being under siege by Muslim Diasporas and the many unintended ramifications of a security-minded world order. This volume deliberately focuses on these issues both at a broad theoretical level but more importantly in the form of a number of prominent case studies including Indonesia, Algeria and Turkey

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About the Author:

Timothy J. Madigan teaches philosophy at St. John Fisher College, and is on the editorial board of Philosophy Now magazine. He was formerly the editor of Free Inquiry magazine.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1847180388
• ISBN 13: 9781847180384
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 302
• Editor: Shahram Akbarzadeh, Fethi Mansouri