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This book provides an accessible and up to date overview of the
foundational issues about both emerging constructive understandings
of the digital era and still hidden and ignored aspects that could
instead be dramatically relevant in the future, in the process of a
technological humanism. The book offers relevant scientific and
ethical questions bringing together professionals and researchers,
from different professional and disciplinary fields, who have a
shared interest in investigating operative aspects of
technological, digital and cultural transitions of humans and their
capacity of building human societies. The challenges are clear but
there is a lack of an epistemological, anthropological, economic
and social agenda that would enable a drive to such transitions
towards a technological humanism. This book provides an ideal
platform for professionals and scholars, not only providing tools
for problem analysis, but also indicating shared directions, needs
and objectives for a common goal; the creation of new scenarios
instead of the creation of fears and manipulated social imaginaria.
Why do Islamist groups ally with non-Islamist ruling elites?
Islamists, people who want to islamize society by applying Islamic
law (sharia) to all spheres of social, political and economic life,
are often seen as opponents of existing regimes. They oppose
regimes which tend to secularize their societies. However,
particularly in transitional societies, Islamist groups have been
shown to establish close ties with non-Islamists ruling elites
which often take advantage of their support but subsequently
suppress them, as soon as they outgrow them and gain a strong-hold
on power. Given that Islamists are aware of the likelihood of
suppression once they are no longer an asset, why do they accept
coalitions with authoritarian governments? Is it for ideology or
for personal interests and thirst for power? This work aims to
answer these questions by studying and analyzing two cases: the
Islamist students in Egypt during the 1970s and the Islah Party in
Yemen during the 1990s. This book targets those interested in
social movement theory and political Islam, democratization and
authoritarianism.
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