Young Islam : The New Politics of Religion in Morocco and the Arab World / Avi Max Spiegel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spiegel, Avi Max, author.

Series:

Princeton studies in Muslim politics.

Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics ; 57

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Muslim youth--Arab countries.

Muslim youth.

Muslim youth--Morocco.

Islam and politics--Arab countries.

Islam and politics.

Islam and politics--Morocco.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (261 p.)

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Today, two-thirds of all Arab Muslims are under the age of thirty. Young Islam takes readers inside the evolving competition for their support-a competition not simply between Islamism and the secular world, but between different and often conflicting visions of Islam itself. Drawing on extensive ethnographic research among rank-and-file activists in Morocco, Avi Spiegel shows how Islamist movements are encountering opposition from an unexpected source-each other. In vivid and compelling detail, he describes the conflicts that arise as Islamist groups vie with one another for new recruits, and the unprecedented fragmentation that occurs as members wrangle over a shared urbanized base. Looking carefully at how political Islam is lived, expressed, and understood by young people, Spiegel moves beyond the top-down focus of current research. Instead, he makes the compelling case that Islamist actors are shaped more by their relationships to each other than by their relationships to the state or even to religious ideology. By focusing not only on the texts of aging elites but also on the voices of diverse and sophisticated Muslim youths, Spiegel exposes the shifting and contested nature of Islamist movements today-movements that are being reimagined from the bottom up by young Islam. The first book to shed light on this new and uncharted era of Islamist pluralism in the Middle East and North Africa, Young Islam uncovers the rivalries that are redefining the next generation of political Islam.

Contents:

Front matter

CONTENTS

A Note on Language

A Note on Anonymity

Introduction ISLAMIST PLURALISM

Part I. RELATIONSHIPS

Chapter 1. SHUTTLE ETHNOGRAPHY

Chapter 2. COEVOLUTION

Part II. IDENTITIES

Chapter 3. RANK AND FILE

Chapter 4. WHAT YOUTH WANT

Part III. SHADOWS

Chapter 5. UNHEARD VOICES OF DISSENT

Chapter 6. REGULATING ISLAM

Part IV. INDIVIDUALS

Chapter 7. EVERY RECRUITER IS A REINTERPRETER

Chapter 8. SUITS AND DJELLABAS

Chapter 9. STRATEGIZING THE SACRED

Conclusion. THE NEXT ISLAMIST GENERATION

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

NOTES

INDEX

Backmatter

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

9780691176284

0691176280

OCLC:

907289910