Modern Islamist Movements: History, Religion, and Politics

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John Wiley & Sons, 9 sep 2011 - 248 pagina's
Modern Islamist Movements provides a clear and accessible examination of the history, beliefs and rationale of Islamist Groups and their grievances with the West and governments within the majority-Muslim world, while examining some of these groups' visions for a global Islamic empire.
  • A clear and accessible text that examines the history, beliefs and rationale for violence emerging from Islamist movements, while examining some of these groups' visions for a global Islamic empire
  • Examines Islamist grievances against the West and modern governments in the majority Muslim world, while providing an overview of Islam's relations with the West from the period of the Crusades to the modern age
  • Discusses the historic development of Islamism in Egypt, the West Bank and Gaza, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Afghanistan
  • Explains classic Islamic understandings of jihad and Bin Laden's, al-Qaida's, and other Islamists interpretations of this concept
  • Offers an historical account of the formative relationship between al-Qaida, other Islamists, and Islamic intellectual trends beginning in the eighteenth century
  • Appropriate for undergraduate and graduate students, as well as interested general readers

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Inhoudsopgave

Egypt
37
The West Bank Gaza and Israel
85
Saudi Arabia
122
Pakistan
164
Afghanistan
188
Conclusion
218
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Over de auteur (2011)

Jon Armajani is Associate Professor in the Department of Theology at the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University in Minnesota. He is the author of Dynamic Islam: Liberal Muslim Perspectives in a Transnational Age (2004) and, with James E. Lindsay, co-editor of and contributor to Historical Dimensions of Islam: Pre-Modern and Modern Periods; Essays in Honor of R. Stephen Humphreys (2009). He has also made contributions to scholarly journals and encyclopedias in Islamic Studies and Religious Studies.

Bibliografische gegevens

TitelModern Islamist Movements: History, Religion, and Politics
AuteurJon Armajani
Editiegeïllustreerd
UitgeverJohn Wiley & Sons, 2011
ISBN1444344374, 9781444344370
Lengte248 pagina's
  
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