Islamism and Islam [electronic resource] / Bassam Tibi.
2012
BP173.5 .T534 2012eb
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Title
Islamism and Islam [electronic resource] / Bassam Tibi.
Author
Tibi, Bassam.
ISBN
9780300160147 (electronic book)
0300159986
9780300159981
0300159986
9780300159981
Imprint
New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2012.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xx, 340 p.)
Call Number
BP173.5 .T534 2012eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
320.5/57
Summary
Despite the intense media focus on Muslims and their religion since the tragedy of 9/11, few Western scholars or policymakers today have a clear idea of the distinctions between Islam and the politically based fundamentalist movement known as Islamism. In this important and illuminating book, Bassam Tibi, a senior scholar of Islamic politics, provides a corrective to this dangerous gap in our understanding. He explores the true nature of contemporary Islamism and the essential ways in which it differs from the religious faith of Islam. Drawing on research in twenty Islamic countries over three decades, Tibi describes Islamism as a political ideology based on a reinvented version of Islamic law. In separate chapters devoted to the major features of Islamism, he discusses the Islamist vision of state order, the centrality of antisemitism in Islamist ideology, Islamism's incompatibility with democracy, the reinvention of jihadism as terrorism, the invented tradition of shari'a law as constitutional order, and the Islamists' confusion of the concepts of authenticity and cultural purity. Tibi's concluding chapter applies elements of Hannah Arendt's theory to identify Islamism as a totalitarian ideology.
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Table of Contents
Why Islamism is not Islam
Islamism and the political order
Islamism and antisemitism
Islamism and democracy
Islamism and violence : the new world disorder
Islamism and law : shariʼatization as an invention of tradition
Islamism, purity, and authenticity
Islamism and totalitarianism
Civil Islam as an alternative to Islamism.
Islamism and the political order
Islamism and antisemitism
Islamism and democracy
Islamism and violence : the new world disorder
Islamism and law : shariʼatization as an invention of tradition
Islamism, purity, and authenticity
Islamism and totalitarianism
Civil Islam as an alternative to Islamism.