| Edition |
2nd ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 336 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-327) and index. |
| Contents |
Modernity, post-modernity and the Muslim world -- Islam and post-modernity -- The Weber thesis -- Mohammed -- a political prophet -- Islam: faith and rationality -- Traditional domination -- Islamic law and Arab legal institutions -- Capitalism in Muslim countries -- The modernisation of Arabia -- Separation between state and religion? -- Towards a new fundamentalism -- Islam and democracy -- Islam and politics: where the principal difficulty of post-modernity lies -- Religion and human rights: constants and constraints -- Islamic politics and the military: Algeria 1962-2008 -- Islam -- a religion of warriors? -- Fundamentalism and the state: need for mutual explanation. |
| Summary |
Offering a timely new appraisal of the political and social impact of Islam, this expanded second edition of Religion and Politics has been fully updated in line with new events. Jan-Erik Lane and Hamadi Redissi look at the underlying social consequences of religious beliefs to account for the political differences between major civilizations of the world against a background of the rise of modern capitalism. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Islamic civilization.
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Islamic civilization. |
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Islam -- History.
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Islam. |
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History. |
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East and West.
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East and West. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Redissi, Hamadi.
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Ṛaydāwī, Riyāḍ.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Lane, Jan-Erik. Religion and politics. 2nd ed. Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub. Co., ©2009 9780754674184 0754674185 (DLC) 2008048316 (OCoLC)269282250 |
| ISBN |
9780754691761 (electronic book) |
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0754691764 (electronic book) |
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0754674185 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780754674184 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
| Standard No. |
9786612091759 |
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