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

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : RoutledgeCurzon, , 2003
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (201 p.)
• Disciplina: 320.5/5/0917671
• Soggetto topico: Islam and politics; Islam and state; Religion and politics
• Soggetto geografico: Islamic countries Politics and government
• Classificazione: 11.84
• Altri autori: AkbarzadehShahram SaeedAbdullah
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Islam and political legitimacy
• ISBN: 1-134-38055-0; 1-134-38056-9; 0-203-50380-5; 1-280-07282-2; 0-203-35475-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910783883503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II