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Rethinking Islamist politics : culture, the state and Islamism

Ismail, Salwa author

2006

Overview

\"In an atmosphere of growing concern over the threat posed by Islamist violence, political Islamism has become the most important of geopolitical issues. In the process, it has been misrepresented. Contrary to what many believe, Islamist movements are characterised by their diversity. Revisiting the main arguments and explanations that have been used over the past twenty years to understand Islamist activism, moderate as well as militant, Salwa Ismail here proposes a rethinking of Islamist politics. The phenomenon of political Islam is determined by macro and micro-level changes in the Muslim world, such as the retreat of the welfare state across the Middle East, and the subsequent expansion in the role of informal political activists in the popular neighbourhoods of such cities as Algiers or Cairo. Ismail examines both levels to explain the socio-economic and political settings out of which Islamism has developed. Her focus is both the economic and political environments that fomented Islamism, and the structures of Islamist movements themselves (from their ideologies to their modes of action).

• Publisher: I.B. Tauris,Replika Press Pvt
• Subject: Islam and politics / Political science
• ISBN: 184511180X, 9781845111809

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
BP 173.7 .I895 2006	2	BOOK	AUTOSTORE