Political Islam: a critical reader/ edited by Frederic Volpi

Contributor(s): Volpi, Frederic, edMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: London: Routledge, 2011Description: xv, 471 p. ; 25 cmISBN: 9780415560283Subject(s): Islam and politicsDDC classification: 320.557
Contents:
I. Introduction : critically studying political Islam -- II. Modern understandings and explanations of Islamism. What is political Islam? / Charles Hirschkind -- Being Muslim Islam, Islamism and identity politics / Salwa Ismail -- From national struggle to the disillusionments of "recolonization" : the triple temporality of Islamism / François Burgat -- Deciphering Islam's multiple voices : intellectual luxury or strategic necessity? / Mohammed Ayoob -- The forgotten swamp : navigating political Islam / Guilain Denoeux -- III. Political Islam, the state and political power. Visions of an Islamic Republic : good governance according to the Islamists / Gudrun Krämer -- Religion and realpolitik : Islamic responses to the Gulf War / James Piscatori -- Good Muslim, bad Muslim : a political perspective on culture and terrorism / Mahmood Mamdani -- The Islamist impasse? / Salman Sayyid -- IV. Political Islam and democracy. The politics of presence / Asef Bayat -- Social movement theory, selective incentives, and benefits / Janine Clark -- Public Islam and the problem of democratization / Robert W. Hefner -- The path to moderation : strategy and learning in the formation of Egypt's Wasat party / Carrie Rosefsky Wickham -- V. Islamist movements in multicultural settings. Beyond migration : Islam as a transnational public space / John R. Bowen -- Trying to understand French secularism / Talal Asad -- Islam in public : new visibilities and new imaginaries / Nilüfer Göle -- The predicament of diaspora and millennial Islam : reflections on September 11, 2001 / Pnina Werbner -- Islam in the West or Western Islam? The disconnect of religion and culture / Olivier Roy -- VI. Political Islam and political violence. The origins and development of the jihadist movement : from anti-communism to terrorism / Gilles Kepel -- A genealogy of radical Islam / Quintan Wiktorowicz -- Global jihadism after the Iraq War / Thomas Hegghammer -- Accounting for Al-Qaeda / Faisal Devji -- VII. The globalization of Islamism. Reimagining the Ummah? Information technology and the changing boundaries of political Islam / Peter Mandaville -- New medinas : The Tablighi Jamacat in America and Europe / Barbara D. Metcalf -- Civic virtue and religious reason : an Islamic counterpublic / Charles Hirschkind -- Globalization and diversification of Islamic movements : three Turkish cases / Ahmet T. Kuru -- VIII. The future of political Islam. The future of political Islam : its dilemmas and options / Graham E. Fuller -- Islamists and the politics of consensus / Daniel Brumberg -- Ethical formation and politics of individual autonomy in contemporary Egypt / Saba Mahmood -- The end of Islamism? Turkey's Muslimhood model / Jenny B. White.
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I. Introduction : critically studying political Islam --
II. Modern understandings and explanations of Islamism. What is political Islam? / Charles Hirschkind --
Being Muslim Islam, Islamism and identity politics / Salwa Ismail --
From national struggle to the disillusionments of "recolonization" : the triple temporality of Islamism / François Burgat --
Deciphering Islam's multiple voices : intellectual luxury or strategic necessity? / Mohammed Ayoob --
The forgotten swamp : navigating political Islam / Guilain Denoeux --
III. Political Islam, the state and political power. Visions of an Islamic Republic : good governance according to the Islamists / Gudrun Krämer --
Religion and realpolitik : Islamic responses to the Gulf War / James Piscatori --
Good Muslim, bad Muslim : a political perspective on culture and terrorism / Mahmood Mamdani --
The Islamist impasse? / Salman Sayyid --
IV. Political Islam and democracy. The politics of presence / Asef Bayat --
Social movement theory, selective incentives, and benefits / Janine Clark --
Public Islam and the problem of democratization / Robert W. Hefner --
The path to moderation : strategy and learning in the formation of Egypt's Wasat party / Carrie Rosefsky Wickham --
V. Islamist movements in multicultural settings. Beyond migration : Islam as a transnational public space / John R. Bowen --
Trying to understand French secularism / Talal Asad --
Islam in public : new visibilities and new imaginaries / Nilüfer Göle --
The predicament of diaspora and millennial Islam : reflections on September 11, 2001 / Pnina Werbner --
Islam in the West or Western Islam? The disconnect of religion and culture / Olivier Roy --
VI. Political Islam and political violence. The origins and development of the jihadist movement : from anti-communism to terrorism / Gilles Kepel --
A genealogy of radical Islam / Quintan Wiktorowicz --
Global jihadism after the Iraq War / Thomas Hegghammer --
Accounting for Al-Qaeda / Faisal Devji --
VII. The globalization of Islamism. Reimagining the Ummah? Information technology and the changing boundaries of political Islam / Peter Mandaville --
New medinas : The Tablighi Jamacat in America and Europe / Barbara D. Metcalf --
Civic virtue and religious reason : an Islamic counterpublic / Charles Hirschkind --
Globalization and diversification of Islamic movements : three Turkish cases / Ahmet T. Kuru --
VIII. The future of political Islam. The future of political Islam : its dilemmas and options / Graham E. Fuller --
Islamists and the politics of consensus / Daniel Brumberg --
Ethical formation and politics of individual autonomy in contemporary Egypt / Saba Mahmood --
The end of Islamism? Turkey's Muslimhood model / Jenny B. White.

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