Political Islam
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Abd Al Raziq
Abid Al Jabiri
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Arab governance structures
Author_Nazih Ayubi
brotherhood
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collective morality enforcement
Contemporary Societies
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Faisal Islamic Bank
government
Hasan Al Banna
Hasan Al Hudaibi
Ibn Taimiya
islamic
Islamic Banks
Islamic economic networks
Islamic Liberals
Islamic Liberation Party
Islamic Movements
Islamic Revolution
Islamic Societies
Islamist political theory
Khomeini's Theory
Khomeini’s Theory
Middle East social movements
Mouvement De La Tendance Islamique
movement
muslim
Muslim Brothers
Muslim World
Nasserist Project
Nasserist State
Political Islam
Qutbian Discourse
radical Islamist anti-state ideology
religious modernity
resurgence
sayyid
Sayyid Qutb
state
Syrian Muslim Brothers
Tariq Al Bishri
world
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780415103855
- Weight: 560g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 21 Oct 1993
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Islamic theocracy is now firmly established in fundamentalist Iran, and waves of fundamentalism are sweeping the entire Islamic world, and its diaspora.
This book examines the claim of those Islamists who contend that, as a belief system and a way of life, Islam carries with it a theory of politics and the state which should be applied unquestioningly. Ayubi traces both the intellectual sources and the socio-economic bases of Political Islam, arguing that it is a modern phenomenon, dating back only to the inter-war period. He describes its major proponents as urban, educated and relatively young people, whose energies were mobilised, but whose expectations were not fulfilled by the post-independence `populist' regimes in the Arab World.
Islamic movements in six countries are studied in detail. Ayubi's distinctively broad definition of politics encompasses innovative material on sex and the family, and on the emerging alternative economic and social networks of Islamic banks, schools, and hospitals in the countries discussed.
Ayubi stresses the traditional concern in Islam for the collective enforcement of morals, but argues that there is no case for the commonly held misconception that politics begins from theological principles in the Arab world: the historical connection between Islam and politics can be explained as an attempt by the rulers to legitimise their actions. He suggests that radical Islamists are reversing this position by subjecting politics to their specific religious views, so their movement is in some senses an anti-state one. He concludes by discussing possible intellectual responses to fundamentalism, drawing on the thinking of contemporary Muslim liberals.
