The politics of Islamic reassertion
The Iranian Revolution has catalysed the preconceptions holding sway in the Western World about the character of Islam and its politics, based as they are on a mixture of imagined cultural superiority and a latent fear of a resurgence similar to the Arab conquests of the seventh and eighth centuries...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London
Routledge
2013
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| Series: | Routledge library editions: politics of Islam
volume 13 |
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| Summary: | The Iranian Revolution has catalysed the preconceptions holding sway in the Western World about the character of Islam and its politics, based as they are on a mixture of imagined cultural superiority and a latent fear of a resurgence similar to the Arab conquests of the seventh and eighth centuries of the long Ottoman domination of Eastern Europe. This book constitutes a counterweight to such monolithic perceptions of Islam. It surveys the nature of opinion and of government in the larger Muslim regions of the world, and the position of Muslims in states where they are not the domina. |
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| Physical Description: | 298 pages 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 9780415830850 (volume 13) 9780415644372 (set) |