Mesir kembali bergejolak. Tragedi kemanusiaan kembeli membuat tubuh merinding. Ratusan rakyat Mesir telah divonis mati. Adakah darah telah menjadi dingin. Padahal dulunya mereka bersaudara. Tapi kekuasaan telah membabi buta. Negeri mesir eksotik penuh misteri. SImak tragedi yang melatarbelakanginya buku ini. Dibumbui juga dengan informasi lainnya tentang mesir. Mulai dari wisata, masjid, makam,…
For thirty years, Hezbollah has played a pivotal role in Lebanese and global politics. That visibility has invited Hezbollah’s lionization and vilification by outside observers, and at the same time has prevented a clear-eyed view of Hezbollah’s place in the history of the Middle East and its future course of action. Now part of the Lebanese government, Hezbollah nevertheless remains in…
Buku ini adalah hasil membandingkan PKB (Partai Kebangkitan Bangsa) di negeri kita dan UMNO (United Malays National Organization) di Malaysia. Walaupun selama ini hubungannya sangat pincang akibat salah pengertian antara kedua negara dalam beberapa hal, tapi terasa kebutuhan akan sebuah perbandingan antara kedua partai itu. Beruntunglah kita memperoleh jawaban dari disertasi A Effendy Choirie y…
Buku ini ditulis oleh seorang ilmuwan politik muda ini menyimpulkan, bahwa hanya Islam saja yang bisa menawarkan alternatif bagi adanya reformasi total sebagaimana Nabi Muhammad SAW pada abad ke 6.
British journalist Francis Wade spent considerable time in Myanmar trying to understand its distant and recent history. In early 2017 he published Myanmar’s Enemy Within: Buddhist Violence and the Making of a Muslim “Other,” about changing attitudes over the centuries about how the majority Buddhist population viewed Muslims. In his historical investigations, he does not spare British col…
After Jihad gives the context for understanding how the many Muslims who reject religious violence see the world after the globalization of democracy. It is also an argument about how American self-interest can be understood to include a foreign policy consistent with the deeply held democratic values that make America what it is. At a time when the encounter with Islam has become the dominant …
Kita catat ideologi-ideologi besar yang hidup di Indonesia dan memiliki pengaruh hingga kini, serta nampak masih memiliki prospek masa depan yaitu Komunisme, Islamisme, Nasionalisme, dan Militerisme. Keempat ideologi besar tersebut kini masih memiliki eksistensi berkembang di masyarakat. Semuanya memiliki masa lalu yang muram.Buku ini mengungkapkan aspek politik-historikal dan prospek masa depa…
Esposito and Voll use six case studies to look at the history of this relationship and the role played by new Islamic movements. At one end of the spectrum, Iran and Sudan represent two cases of militant, revolutionary Islam opposing the political system. In Algeria and Malaysia however, the new movements have been legally recognized and made part of the political process. The authors identify …
Gordon Means traces the evolution of Islamic politics in Southeast Asia, ranging from the early arrival of Islam in the region to the challenges it generates, and faces, today. Means's analysis encompasses the events and actions shaping Islamic politics, as well as the impact of Islamic politics on government and public policy outcomes.
In this brilliant look at the rise of political Islam, the distinguished political scientist and anthropologist Mahmood Mamdani brings his expertise and insight to bear on a question many Americans have been asking since 9/11: how did this happen? Mamdani dispels the idea of “good” (secular, westernized) and “bad” (premodern, fanatical) Muslims, pointing out that these judgments refer t…