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Islamist Politics In The Middle East
Samer Shehata
Movements and Change
Routledge
June 2012
On Sale: June 13, 2012
240 pages
ISBN: 0415783623
EAN: 9780415783620
Kindle: B0081YT4AO
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Non-Fiction
For over three decades, Islamist politics, or political
Islam, has been one of the most dynamic and contentious
political forces in the Middle East. Although there is broad
consensus on the importance of political Islam, there is far
less agreement on its character, the reasons for Islamist’s
success, the role of Islamist movements in domestic and
international affairs, or what these movements portend for
the future. This volume addresses a number of central
questions in the study of Islamist politics in the Middle
East through detailed case studies of some of the region’s
most important Islamist movements. Chapters by leading
scholars in the field examine the Egyptian Muslim
Brotherhood, Hamas, Hizbullah, Morocco’s Justice and
Benevolence, the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood, the Sunni
Insurgency in Iraq and Islamist politics in Turkey and Iran.
The topics addressed within this volume include social
networks and social welfare provision, Islamist groups as
opposition actors, Islamist electoral participation, the
intersection of Islam and national liberation struggles, the
role of religion in Islamist politics, and Islam and state
politics in Iran, among other topics. All of the
contributing authors are specialists with deep knowledge of
the subject matter who are committed to empirically based
research. These scholars take Islamists seriously as modern,
sophisticated, and strategic political players. Together,
their work captures much of the diversity of Islamist
politics in the region and will contribute to the
scholarship on a topic that continues to be important for
the Middle East and the world.
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