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29%OFFL. Carl. Brown - Religion and State: The Muslim Approach to Politics - 9780231120395 - V9780231120395
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Religion and State: The Muslim Approach to Politics

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Description for Religion and State: The Muslim Approach to Politics Paperback. Are today's radical Islamic groups restoring Islam to an earlier model of religiously inspired politics, as they claim, or are they introducing striking innovations? A leading scholar of the Muslim world investigates these issues in the context of the broad reaches of Muslim history. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1KBB; HRH; JFSR2; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 363.
If Westerners know a single Islamic term, it is likely to be jihad, the Arabic word for "holy war." The image of Islam as an inherently aggressive and xenophobic religion has long prevailed in the West and can at times appear to be substantiated by current events. L. Carl Brown challenges this conventional wisdom with a fascinating historical overview of the relationship between religious and political life in the Muslim world ranging from Islam's early centuries to the present day. Religion and State examines the commonplace notion-held by both radical Muslim ideologues and various Western observers alike-that in Islam there ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231120395
SKU
V9780231120395
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About L. Carl. Brown
L. Carl Brown, Garrett Professor in Foreign Affairs Emeritus at Princeton University, is editor of Imperial Legacy: The Ottoman Imprint on the Balkans and the Middle East.

Reviews for Religion and State: The Muslim Approach to Politics
A balanced, scholarly assessment of Islamic politics... A subtle and skilled rejoinder to the conventional schools of thought-and to fashionable assumptions about the 'post-Islamist' era. Foreign Affairs Brown... is one of the giants of Middle Eastern studies and his books get better and better... A well-written and lucid study. Middle East Quarterly Both an important and a useful book. It ... Read more

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