Political Islam : Essays from Middle East Report / Joel Beinin and Joe Stork.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beinin, Joel, 1948- author.

Stork, Joe, author.

Contributor:

Middle East Report.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islam and politics--Africa, North.

Islam and politics.

Islam and politics--Middle East.

Africa, North--Politics and government.

Africa, North.

Middle East--Politics and government.

Middle East.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (408 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [1997]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The essays and case studies collected here--featuring some of the best material from Middle East Report over the past decade as well as much original material--challenge the facile generalizations about what Western media and political establishments usually call "Islamic fundamentalism." The authors demonstrate the complexity of these movements and offer complementary and contrasting interpretations of their origins and significance. The material included covers a broad range of themes--including democracy and civil society, gender relations and popular culture--as they have emerged in countries throughout the Middle East and North Africa.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

1. On the Modernity, Historical Specificity, and International Context of Political Islam

2. Introduction to Part One

3. The New Orientalism and the Democracy Debate

4. Religion, the State, and Democracy: Contrasting Conceptions of Society in Egypt

5. Gender and Civil Society

6. Islamist Notions of Democracy

7. Secularism, Integralism, and Political Islam: The Egyptian Debate

8. Introduction to Part Two

9. Is Iran an Islamic State?

10. Islamic Mobilization and Political Change: The Islamist Trend in Egypt's Professional Associations

11. Hizb Allah and the Lebanese State

12. The Resurgence of Islam and the Welfare Party in Turkey

13. Is There an Islamic Economics?

14. Funding Fundamentalism: The Political Economy of an Islamist State

15. Introduction to Part Three

16. Women, Islam, and the State

17. From Immodesty to Collaboration: Hamas, the Women's Movement, and National Identity in the Intifada

18. "Hassiba Ben Bouali, If You Could See Our Algeria": Women and Public Space in Algeria

19. Devices and Desires: Population Policy and Gender Roles in the Islamic Republic

20. The Women of Sudan's National Islamic Front

21. Introduction to Part Four

22. Rai, Rap, and Ramadan Nights: Franco-Maghribi Cultural Identities

23. Dramatic Reversals: Political Islam and Egyptian Television

24. Taking up Space in Tlemcen: The Islamist Occupation of Urban Algeria

25. Genesis of a Mobilization: The Young Activists of Algeria's Islamic Salvation Front

26. Introduction to Part Five

27. What Does the Gama'a Islamiyya Want?

28. "Silencing Is at the Heart of My Case"

29. The Islamist Movement and the Palestinian Authority

30. What Kind of Nation? The Rise of Hamas in the Occupied Territories

31. Roots of the Shi'i Movement in Lebanon

32. "How Can a Muslim Live in This Era?"

CONTRIBUTORS

INDEX

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520917583

0520917588

9780585118093

0585118094

OCLC:

1149452533