| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 316 pages). |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Indiana series in Middle East studies
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Indiana series in Middle East studies.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Islamic activism and social movement theory / Quintan Wiktorowicz -- From marginalization to massacres : a political process explanation of GIA violence in Algeria / Mohammed M. Hafez -- Violence as contention in the Egyptian Islamic movement / Mohammed M. Hafez and Quintan Wiktorowicz -- Repertoires of contention in contemporary Bahrain / Fred H. Lawson -- Hamas as social movement / Glenn E. Robinson -- The networked world of Islamist social movements / Diane Singerman -- Islamist women in Yemen : informal nodes of activism / Janine A. Clark -- Collective action with and without Islam : mobilizing the bazaar in Iran / Benjamin Smith -- The islah party in Yemen : political opportunities and coalition building in a transitional polity / Jillian Schwedler -- Interests, ideas, and Islamist outreach in Egypt / Carrie Rosefsky Wickham -- Making conversation permissible : Islamism and reform in Saudi Arabia / Gwenn Okruhlik -- Opportunity spaces, identity, and Islamic meaning in Turkey / M. Hakan Yavuz -- Social movement theory and Islamic studies / Charles Kurzman. |
| Summary |
" ... [Will] have an impact on two important fields of scholarship: social movement theory and the study of Islamic activist movements."--John Voll, Georgetown UniversityThis volume represents the first comprehensive attempt to incorporate the study of Islamic activism into social movement theory. It argues that the dynamics, processes, and organization of Islamic activism can be understood as important elements of contention that transcend the specificity of "Islam" as a system of meaning and identity a. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Social movements -- Arab countries.
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Social movements. |
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Arab countries. |
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Social movements -- Middle East.
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Middle East. |
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Islam and politics -- Arab countries.
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Islam and politics. |
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Islam and politics -- Middle East.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Social movements. |
| Added Author |
Wiktorowicz, Quintan, 1970-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Islamic activism. Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, ©2004 0253216214 0253342813 (DLC) 2003008458 (OCoLC)52090524 |
| ISBN |
0253110769 (electronic book) |
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9780253110763 (electronic book) |
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0253216214 (paperback ; acid-free paper) |
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0253342813 (acid-free paper) |
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9780253216212 (paperback ; acid-free paper) |
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9780253342812 (acid-free paper) |
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