"Schulze's contribution is important to ongoing global political
events. In sum, Schulze's work is interesting and highly
relevant..comprehensive and convincing."--"Journal of the
International Society for the Study of European Ideas"
The Islamic world--defined as those regions in which Islam is
the dominant or single most important religion--covers territories
as far apart as Morocco and Indonesia, Somalia, and Bosnia and
includes an extraordinary range of societies and cultures. In A
Modern History of the Islamic World, eminent scholar Reinhard
Schulze charts the history of these societies in the twentieth
century, revealing what they have in common as well as their
equally profound differences.
Rather than stringing together individual studies of different
countries, the book is structured chronologically, tracing
political change in the context of culture and society. Schulze
opens with a survey of the impact of colonialism and its attendant
modernizing effects on the Islamic world. He then moves on to
examine the rise of bourgeois nationalism in the 1920s and 1930s,
the era of independence movements, the relationship between Islamic
cultures and the "republican" political culture of the Third World,
the reassertion of Islamic ideologies in the 1970s and 1980s and,
finally, the issues surrounding the relationship between Islamic
culture and civil society that dominated debate in the 1990s.
A Modern History of the Islamic World provides a clear overview
of the ways in which twentieth century modernism affected the
societies of the Islamic world and how modernism was developed from
an Islamic perspective.
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