Author : Abdelilah Belkeziz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857717065
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)
Book Synopsis The State in Contemporary Islamic Thought by : Abdelilah Belkeziz
Download or read book The State in Contemporary Islamic Thought written by Abdelilah Belkeziz and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2009-08-30 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The debates on 'Islam and Modernity' clearly include in their analysis notions of the State. Abdelillah Belkeziz here charts the development of the concept of 'the state' (al-dawlah) in Islamic discourse over the last two centuries. The result is a tour de force survey of the most influential Muslim thinkers of the modern era, which encompasses three successive waves: the modernist trends of the early and later reformers like Sayyed Jamal Eddin Al-Afghani; the dogmatism of ideologues like Hasan Al-Bana; and the rhetoric of revivalists like the Ayatollah Khomeini. Through this analysis, Belkeziz argues that modern Islamic political thought succeeded in producing ideologies, but ultimately failed to produce a unified theory of state. This work is an essential encyclopedic resource for all scholars and researchers of Political Islam and will become a standard work in the field.