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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451070803321

Titolo

Islam and political legitimacy / / edited by Shahram Akbarzadeh and Abdullah Saeed

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : RoutledgeCurzon, , 2003

ISBN

1-134-38056-9

0-203-50380-5

1-280-07282-2

0-203-35475-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (201 p.)

Classificazione

11.84

Altri autori (Persone)

AkbarzadehShahram

SaeedAbdullah

Disciplina

320.5/5/0917671

Soggetti

Islam and politics

Islam and state

Religion and politics

Electronic books.

Islamic countries Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-182) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Islam and politics / Shahram Akbarzadeh, Abdullah Saeed -- Official ulema and religious legitimacy of the modern nation state / Abdullah Saeed -- Saudi Arabia: re-reading politics and religion in the wake of September 11 / Larbi Sadiki -- Politics of reform in the Islamic Republic of Iran / Farideh Farhi -- Pakistan and the sturggle for 'real' Islam / Samina Yasmeen -- Islamic dilemma in Uzbekistan / Shahram Akbarzadeh -- Failure of the 'welfare state': Islamic resurgence and political legitimacy in Bangladesh / Taj I. Hashmi -- Islam and political legitimacy in Malaysia / Osman Bakar -- Divided majority: limits of Indonesian political Islam / Greg Fealy -- State legitimacy / Shahram Akbarzadeh.

Sommario/riassunto

Akbarzadeh and Saeed explore one of the most challenging issues facing the Muslim world: the Islamisation of political power. They present a comparative analysis of Muslim societies in West, South,



Central and South East Asia and highlight the immediacy of the challenge for the political leadership in those societies. Islam and Political Legitimacy contends that the growing reliance on Islamic symbolism across the Muslim world, even in states that have had a strained relationship with Islam, has contributed to the evolution of Islam as a social and cultural factor to an entrenched pol