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Radicalism and political reform in the Islamic and western worlds /
"Over the last decade, political Islam has been denounced in the Western media and in the surrounding literature as a terrorist or fascist movement that is entirely at odds with Western democratic ideology. Kai Hafez's book overturns these arguments, contending that, despite its excesses,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Alemán |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2010.
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| Edición: | 1st English ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction. Radicalism and political change in the Islamic and Western worlds
- - The globalization of the two velocities
- -- Part I. Modernity. 1 Conceptions of Modernity: Reform, Reformation and Radicalism
- - The minimum consensus of Western modernity
- - Secularism and political Islam: ideological dualism
- - Liberal reformist Islam: reformation without modernity?
- - Conservative reformist Islam: a Lutheran logic
- - The unintentional modernity of Islamic fundamentalism
- - A comparative look at notions of modernity: the time-lapse of civilizational progress
- -- 2 Political Cultures and Social Movements: The Social Rationality of Cultural Change
- - Western participation and Oriental fatalism?
- - Re-Islamization: from religious stupor to active community
- - Islamic fundamentalism as "radical Protestantism"
- - The social rationality of cultural change
- -- Part II. Democracy. 3 The Discourse of Democratization: Grey Zones at the Intersection of Religion and Secularism
- - The "Christian democratization" of Islam?
- - Muslim world: secular democracy on the margins of global society
- -- 4 Political System Change: The Radicals Democracy
- - Stability and state collapse in the twenty-first century: the Middle Eastern Leviathan
- - Democracy and a new social contract in the Middle East
- - The oppositions capacity for political struggle: the crucial role of the Islamic fundamentalists
- - Pacts among opposition groups: fundamentalists as (in- )calculable risk
- - The international dimension of democratization
- - Euro-Islam or Islam-oriented Ostpolitik: two models of transformation
- -- Part III. Political violence. 5 Authoritarianism: Dictatorship Between Fascism and Modernization
- - "Islamofascism": dead end of political rationality?
- - Anti-Semitism or the risk of ethnicization
- - Democratic polyarchies and the changing face of authoritarianism: dictatorial temptations
- - Modern slavery: a common challenge
- -- 6 Imperialism: Autocracy, Democracy and Violence
- - The West in the Middle East: a panoply of international violence
- - Western democracy and international violence: from "eternal peace" to "humanitarian" imperialism
- - Islamic imperialism: a cultural remnant
- -- 7 Terrorism and Non-violent Resistance: Extremism and Pacifism Across Cultures
- - A typology of Islamic terrorism: Is terrorism typically Islamic?
- - Causes of terrorism: holy war as a blend of madness and rationality
- - Non-violent resistance in Islam and how the West ignores it
- -- Conclusion From "Holy War" to Democracy? The Current State of Islamic and Western Modernity.