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Islam, the People and the State - Political Ideas and Movements in the Middle East (Paperback, 3rd Updated ed.)
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Islam, the People and the State - Political Ideas and Movements in the Middle East (Paperback, 3rd Updated ed.)
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The recent prominence of Islamic politics in the Middle East, has
raised important questions about society, politics and culture. It
has posed a challenge to the main theoretical approaches in the
social sciences from Marxism to modernization theory and it has
given some credence to the idea that the world of Islam is
essentially distinct from Europe, and follows a course of
development dictated by its own history and culture. In this book,
Sami Zubaida challenges these diverse opinions in favour of a
general political sociology capable of dealing with the historical
and cultural personalities of societies and situations in the
region. He argues that rather than being "revivals" of historical
ideas and institutions, current political and social developments
in the Islamic World are, in fact, uniquely modern phenomena.
'Packed with stimulating ideas on a wide range of topics - whether
on fundamentalism, the state or society, wedding ceremonies or
class analysis, theories of development or Middle East specificity.
This book is a must reading for any student of the contemporary
Middle East.' - Ervand Abrahamian, author of Radical Islam: The
Iranian Mujahedin, and Khomeinism: Politics and Ideology in
Contemporary Iran 'A fine reassessment of societies where religion
seems suddenly to be the dominant ideology' - Middle East Report
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