Tensions and Transitions in the Muslim World
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- ISBN 9780761827221
- Weight: 349g
- Dimensions: 140 x 225mm
- Publication Date: 30 Dec 2003
- Publisher: University Press of America
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Tensions and Transitions in the Muslim World provides an alternative reading of Middle Eastern politics and political culture by focusing on the dynamics of change, and examining the role of Islam in the emerging modern Middle East. Louay Safi contends that by focusing on radical and traditionalist Islam, Middle East specialists often overlook the liberal manifestations of Islam, which, though marginalized, constitute the driving force in the sociopolitical development of the Middle East. To capture the dynamics of progress in the Middle East, Safi examines the impact of the ideological struggle and intellectual debate between the forces of modernism and Islamic traditionalism on the transformation of mainstream society, and delineates the emerging sociopolitical outlooks and orientations, locked in a fierce struggle for the heart and soul of the Middle East.
Louay Safi is Director of Research for the International Institute of Islamic Thought, Editor of the American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, and author of The Challenge of Modernity: The Quest for Authenticity in the Arab World (University Press of America, 1994).
