Understanding political Islam / François Burgat ; translated by Thomas Hill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burgat, François, author.

Contributor:

Hill, Thomas (Translator), translator.

Standardized Title:

Comprendre l'islam politique English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Islam and politics.

Islam--Social aspects--Islamic countries.

Islam.

Islamic countries--Politics and government.

Islamic countries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 235 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2020.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This book retraces the human and intellectual development that has led the author to one very firm conviction: that the tensions that afflict the Western world's relationship with the Muslim world are at their root political, far more than they are ideological. It aims to limit itself to a precise scholarly arena: recounting, as meticulously as possible, the most striking interactions between a personal life history and professional and research trajectories. This path has consistently centered on how the rise of political Islam has been expressed: first in the Arab world, then in its interactions with French and Western societies, and finally in its interactions with other European and Western societies. It brings up-to-date theses formulated in the 2000s, in particular in the author's previous book Islamism in the Shadow of al-Qaeda (2005, 2nd ed. 2010, English ed. 2010), by measuring them up against the lessons of the powerful revolutionary dynamics set off by the "Arab Spring" of 2011, followed by the counter-revolutionary ones.

Contents:

Preface to the English Edition

Introduction: Writing the History of a Research Career

Part I: Discovering the Muslim "Other"

1. Intuitive Accumulation

2. Algeria: Approaching the Other

3. Prelude in the Jamahiriyya

4. Egypt, Arabic, and Grasping Difference

5. Yemen: Modernisation Without Colonization

6. "Beneath Israel, Palestine"

7. Syria and Bilad Al-Sham

Part II: Political Islam: The stakes of an alternative interpretation

9. Being a Political Scientist of the Muslim World

10. Saving the Other's "Others": A French Obsession

11. The Political Cost of Dissent

12. Between Judges and Spooks

13. Wrestling with the Research of Others: Olivier Roy, Gilles Kepel and Islamism

14. The Charlie Hebdo Attacks: Failure of Islam-or Failure of Politics?

Conclusion: Where Do We Go Now?

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 10 Jul 2026).

Originally published in French by Editions LA DÉCOUVERTE, Paris, France, 2016.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781526143440

1526143445

OCLC:

1150315519