From Rabat to Gaza, through Algiers and Caimo, Burgat carried out his inquiry in interviews with prominent Islant Among the burning issues addressed are the relations between Islam and modernity, Islamism and women, and overall question of violence.
This book unveils the history of discriminatory policies imposed in Indonesia upon people of Arab descent, and reveals the instrumental role of a Dutch scholar and orientalist, Prof. Snouck Hurgronje, in creating systematic policies to segregate and isolate these Indonesians from the local indigenous Moslem population
Is Islam compatible with democracy? Must fundamentalism win out in the Middle East, or will democracy ever be possible? In her groundbreaking new book, Moroccan sociologist Fatima Mernissi explores the ways in which people on dramatically opposing sides - feminists and defenders of democracy versus violent fundamentalists - must use the same sacred texts to prove different views. Islam and Demo…
After September 11, Americans agonized over why nineteen men hated the United States enough to kill three thousand civilians in an unprovoked assault. Analysts have offered a wide variety of explanations for the attack, but the one voice missing is that of the terrorists themselves. This penetrating book is the first to present the inner logic of al-Qa’ida and like-minded extremist groups by …
This volume explores the relation between Islam and the state in Buddhist-majority Myanmar from both an empirical and a comparative perspective. It provides an informed response to contemporary issues facing the Muslim communities of Myanmar, furthering knowledge of the interaction between state institutions, government policies, and society past and the present.
Political Islam" examines how Islamists, using both violent and peaceful means, are reshaping the region's authoritarian secular political order and redefining Islam's role in the public arena; "Cultural Islam" looks at Egyptian efforts to resist a ubiquitous Western culture by asserting an Islamic identity; "Thinking Islam" reveals how intellectuals are reexamining their theological heritage w…
The appearance of modern political movements proclaiming missions and legitimacy based on religious tradition and scripture has proved to be an enduring feature in many late twentieth-century societies. These phenom- ena are by no means exclusive to the Middle East, but there the issue has assumed great urgency and visibility because of the region's strategic cen- trality to Western political a…
Explores political and geographic change within the same accessible framework, emphasizing the need for a fluid approach to the study of the international order, the nation-state, as well as social movements
The six essays of this book, now revised after having previously been published as Violence for Equality: Inquiries in Political Philosophy, are the result of trying to inquire with an open mind into terrorism and more particularly what some people think are justifications of it or would be justifications of it. If you actually think about it, what can be said for and against terrorism or polit…
Buku ini penting artinya untuk dipahami masyarakat, terutama para mahasiswa yang sedang menekuni studinya. Filsafat Pancasila adalah suatu istilah yang majemuk; maksudnya ialah ilmu filsafat yang obyeknya Pancasila sebagai dasar filsafat, asas kerohanian, ideologi negara.