Modern Islamic Political Thought - Softcover

Enayat, Hamid

Softcover

ISBN 10: 983915415X ISBN 13: 9789839154153

Publisher: Islamic Book Trust, 2004

Synopsis

In the aftermath of the triumph of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, a glutinous flood of publications on Islam and politics began to submerge the academic and pseudo-academic book market in the West. In the midst of such staggering amount of writings, whether of a serious or pamphleteering type, this book offers a lucid and well-argued interpretations of modern Islamic political thought that is indispensable for the understanding of much of the current political developments in the Muslim world. Also covered in the book is: the concept of the Islamic state; and the Muslim response to the challenge of alien and modern ideologies such as nationalism, democracy and socialism - as well as notions of Shi'i modernism.

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Review:

"This title will for long remain a classic and redoubtable piece of scholarship...an essential reading for all those interested in an "insider's" analysis of the Islamic political thought and indeed for all students of political history." - Amidu Olalekan Sanni, "Journal of Oriental and African Studies"

About the Author:

Hamid Enayat was Reader in Modern Middle Eastern History at Oxford University and Fellow at St. Antony's College, Oxford. Prior to his death in 1980 he was also Professor of Political Science at Tehran University where he chaired the Department of Politics.

About this edition

• Publisher: Islamic Book Trust
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 983915415X
• ISBN 13: 9789839154153
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320