Political Islam Observed

Volpi, Frederic

ISBN 10: 1849040613 / ISBN 13: 9781849040617

Editore: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd, 2010

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• Titolo: Political Islam Observed
• Editore: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1849040613
• ISBN 13: 9781849040617
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Condizione: Good
• Peso: 299,4 grammi

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Riassunto

This book offers a framework for understanding the interaction between the academic disciplines 'observing' contemporary political Islam and the individuals and communities being 'observed' practising it. Volpi investigates how different disciplinary approaches in the social sciences explain and understand their 'Islamic' subject matter, revealing how political Islam is a phenomenon that each academic discipline analyses using its own dominant paradigms. He offers a multidisciplinary account of political Islam based on the insights provided by postorientalism, international studies, sociology of religion, democratisation studies, multiculturalism studies, security studies, and globalisation studies. His book outlines the areas of convergence and the synergies between these approaches and highlights the gaps and misunderstanding that still exist between parallel narratives on Islamism.

Recensione

'It is an irony of scholarship that the more a concept is debated, the more ambiguous and harder to define it becomes. Hence, any effort aiming at creating some analytical order, rather than coming up with yet another perspective on political Islam, is a very welcome addition. Frederic Volpi s latest book, Political Islam observed, aims exactly at that. Indeed, its goal is not to offer a comprehensive account of political Islam 'out there', but to map or better to 'observe', as the title suggests how social scientists have analysed it 'in here'. . . Volpi scrupulously maps debates taking place in seven distinct yet overlapping fields.' --International Affairs

'If the maturity of a discipline is determined by the quality of its secondary literature, then Volpi's book signals the coming of age of Islamism studies. He provides a multidisciplinary critique that is epistemologically rich and fruitful. by bringing together in one volume the major attempts to comprehend political Islam, this book demonstrates how complex a phenomenon it is and how radical is its challenge to conventional Eurocentric social sciences. His book is a must-read for all interested in political Islam and its place in the world.' --S. Sayyid, author of A Fundamental Fear

'Going beyond the subtle irony of the title, Volpi digs deeper than any other work to date into the myriad latent issue--theoretical, historical, contemporary--buried behind the reassuring category of 'political Islam' and offers us nothing less than the best available map to navigate the political tensions and conceptual ambiguities evoked by the idea of Islam gone 'political.' Patiently guided up the impervious interdisciplinary slope from which 'political Islam' can be 'observed,' we also receive, on the way down, a precious transdisciplinary knowledge bonus: an articulate understanding of the fine synapses of a complex phenomenon a sometimes culturally oriented, sometimes resentment-driven call for justice and quest for participation.' --Armando Salvatore, author of The Public Sphere: Liberal Modernity, Catholicism, Islam