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Between the State and Islam

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Between the State and Islam
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Charles E. Butterworth
Edited by I. William Zartman
SeriesWoodrow Wilson Center Press
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:272
Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 152
Category/GenreWorld history - c 1750 to c 1900
World history - from c 1900 to now
ISBN/Barcode 9780521789721
ClassificationsDewey:956
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 15 January 2001
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Until recently, the study of the Middle East has focused almost exclusively on Islam and on the regime, especially on its non-democratic aspects. It has done so at the expense of accounting fully for the forces of scepticism, liberty, and creativity that struggle against Islamic conformism and state hegemony. Strangely, there seems to be no scholarly awareness of the simple fact that however influential religion appears in word and deed, however evident the trappings of state authority, people come into being, thrive, marry, raise families, think, laugh, and cry without regard to - indeed, sometimes in utter defiance of - the strictures of religious or state authority. This volume examines how Middle Eastern peoples in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries lived and flourished while trying to shape their political and religious surroundings outside the formal structures of established religion and the state.