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Political Islam - Religion and Politics in the Arab World (Hardcover)
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Political Islam - Religion and Politics in the Arab World (Hardcover)
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Islamic theocracy is now firmly established in fundamentalist Iran,
and waves of fundamentalism are sweeping the entire Islamic world,
and its diaspora. This book examines the claim of those Islamists
who contend that, as a belief system and a way of life, Islam
carries with it a theory of politics and the state which should be
applied unquestioningly. Ayubi traces both the intellectual sources
and the socio-economic bases of Political Islam, arguing that it is
a modern phenomenon, dating back only to the inter-war period. He
describes its major proponents as urban, educated and relatively
young people, whose energies were mobilised, but whose expectations
were not fulfilled by the post-independence `populist' regimes in
the Arab World. Islamic movements in six countries are studied in
detail. Ayubi's distinctively broad definition of politics
encompasses innovative material on sex and the family, and on the
emerging alternative economic and social networks of Islamic banks,
schools, and hospitals in the countries discussed. Ayubi stresses
the traditional concern in Islam for the collective enforcement of
morals, but argues that there is no case for the commonly held
misconception that politics begins from theological principles in
the Arab world: the historical connection between Islam and
politics can be explained as an attempt by the rulers to legitimise
their actions. He suggests that radical Islamists are reversing
this position by subjecting politics to their specific religious
views, so their movement is in some senses an anti-state one. He
concludes by discussing possible intellectual responses to
fundamentalism, drawing on the thinking of contemporary Muslim
liberals.
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