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Islam and Political Legitimacy, EPUB eBook

Islam and Political Legitimacy EPUB

Edited by Shahram (Deakin University, Australia) Akbarzadeh, Abdullah Saeed

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Akbarzadeh and Saeed explore one of the most challenging issues facing the Muslim world: the Islamisation of political power.

They present a comparative analysis of Muslim societies in West, South, Central and South East Asia and highlight the immediacy of the challenge for the political leadership in those societies.

Islam and Political Legitimacy contends that the growing reliance on Islamic symbolism across the Muslim world, even in states that have had a strained relationship with Islam, has contributed to the evolution of Islam as a social and cultural factor to an entrenched political force.

The geographic breadth of this book offers readers a nuanced appraisal of political Islam that transcends parochial eccentricities.

Contributors to this volume examine the evolving relationship between Islam and political power in Bangladesh, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Uzbekistan. Researchers and students of political Islam and radicalism in the Muslim world will find Islam and Political Legitimacy of special interest.

This is a welcome addition to the rich literature on the politics of the contemporary Muslim world.

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