Islam and Democracy: What Is the Real Question? - Brossura

Bayat, Asef

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ISBN 10: 9053569839 ISBN 13: 9789053569832

Casa editrice: Amsterdam Univ Pr, 2007

Riassunto

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.

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L'autore:

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).

Dalla quarta di copertina:

Gaan islam en democratie samen? Asef Bayat neemt deze vaak gestelde maar misleidende vraag onder de loep. Hij beargumenteert dat een religie niet inherent democratisch of ondemocratisch is. Het democratische ethos is eerder het resultaat van een politieke strijd, waarin de islam een democratische of autoritaire kant op wordt geduwd. Asef Bayat bied

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• Editore: Amsterdam Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 9053569839
• ISBN 13: 9789053569832
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 24