Islamic identity and development [[electronic resource] ] : studies of the Islamic periphery / / Ozay Mehmet

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910455556403321
• Autore: Mehmet Ozay
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1990
• ISBN: 1-134-95050-0; 1-280-33635-8; 0-203-21868-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (270 p.)
• Disciplina: 297; 297/.1978/09561; 330.917671
• Soggetti: Economics - Religious aspects - Islam; Islam - Economic aspects - Malaysia; Islam - Economic aspects - Turkey; Islam - Malaysia; Islam - Turkey; Islam and state - Malaysia; Islam and state - Turkey; Electronic books.; Malaysia Economic policy; Turkey Economic policy
• 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. 236-247).
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Islamic identity and development: Studies of the Islamic Periphery; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; A note on terminology; Introduction; Part one: The Islamic identity crisis; 1. Identity crisis in the Islamic Periphery: Turkey and Malaysia; Part two: The Islamic dilemma; 2. Islamic underdevelopment: cause and response; 3. The Islamic social contract: the quest for social justice and the problem of legislation; 4. Islam and economic development: the problem of compatibility; Part three: Development in the Islamic Periphery: the nationalist phase; 5. Nationalism confronts Islam: the modernization debate in Malaysia and Turkey6. Turkish etatism: creation of a non-competitive economy; 7. Malaysian development by trusteeship: the broken trust; Part four: Development in the Islamic Periphery: the modern state and the privatization challenge; 8. Islam, the modern state and imperfect competition: to ban or to regulate?; 9. Privatizing the Malaysian economy: transition from a national to a market ideology; 10. Privatizing the Turkish economy; Part five: Conclusion; 11. Responsible development in the Islamic Periphery: regulation, competition and public policyGlossary; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Turkey and Malaysia, two countries on the Islamic periphery, are often not included in discussions of Islamic reassertion and identity. Yet both have been at the forefront of modernization and development, and are exposed to a rising trend of Islamic revival which discloses a deep, psychological identity crisis.In Islamic Identity and Development, Ozay Mehmet examines this identity crisis in the wider context of the Islamic dilemma of reconciling nationalism with Islam. He sees the Islamic revival primarily as a protest movement, concentrated among urban migrant settlements where une