Islam and Democracy
What Is the Real Question?
Seiten
2007
Pallas Publications (Verlag)
978-90-5356-983-2 (ISBN)
Pallas Publications (Verlag)
978-90-5356-983-2 (ISBN)
Can islam and democracy exist side by side? Is Islam compatible with democracy? The text examines one of the most frequently-asked and yet misguided questions.
Is Islam compatible with democracy? The text examines one of the most frequently-asked and yet misguided questions. Democratic ethos should not and cannot be deduced from some essence of religions supposedly inscribed in the scriptures. Rather, they are the outcome of political struggles that push Islam toward democratic or authoritarian directions. Asef Bayat offers a new approach to examine Islam and democracy arguing how the social struggles of diverse Muslim populations, those with different interests and orientation, render Islam to embrace democratic ideas or authoritarian disposition. “Islamism” and “post-Islamism” are discussed as representing two contrasting movements which have taken Islam into different, authoritarian and inclusive, political directions.
Is Islam compatible with democracy? The text examines one of the most frequently-asked and yet misguided questions. Democratic ethos should not and cannot be deduced from some essence of religions supposedly inscribed in the scriptures. Rather, they are the outcome of political struggles that push Islam toward democratic or authoritarian directions. Asef Bayat offers a new approach to examine Islam and democracy arguing how the social struggles of diverse Muslim populations, those with different interests and orientation, render Islam to embrace democratic ideas or authoritarian disposition. “Islamism” and “post-Islamism” are discussed as representing two contrasting movements which have taken Islam into different, authoritarian and inclusive, political directions.
Asef Bayat is Professor of Sociology and Middle Eastern Studies and holds the Chair of Society and Culture of the Modern Middle East at Leiden University. He is the author of Making Islam Democratic: Social Movements and the Post-Islamist Turn (2007) and Street Politics: Poor People's Movements in Iran (1997).
Islam and Democracy: What is the Real Question? Islam, Democracy and Spcial Movements, Islamism: Movement and World View, What is Post-Islamism?
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 27.3.2007 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | ISIM Papers |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 40 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 90-5356-983-9 / 9053569839 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-90-5356-983-2 / 9789053569832 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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