Research Catalog
Understanding political Islam
- Title
- Understanding political Islam / François Burgat ; Translated by Thomas Hill.
- Author
- Burgat, François
- Publication
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2020.
- ©2016
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Hill, Thomas
- Description
- x, 235 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Understanding political Islam retraces the human and intellectual development that has led François Burgat to one very firm conviction: that the roots of the tensions that afflict the Western world's relationship with the Muslim world are political rather than ideological. In his compelling account of interactions between personal life-history and professional and research trajectories, Burgat examines how the rise of political Islam has been expressed: first in the Arab world, and secondly in its interactions with French and Western societies ..." -- Page 4 vof cover.
- Uniform Title
- Comprendre l'islam politique. English
- Alternative Title
- Comprendre l'islam politique.
- Subjects
- Note
- Originally published: Paris, France : La Découverte, 2016.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Preface to the English Edition page vi. -- Acknowledgments page ix. -- Introduction: Writing the History of a Research Career page 1. -- Part I: Discovering the Muslim "Other" -- 1 Intuitive Accumulation page 17 -- 2 Algeria: Approaching the Other page 33. -- 3 Prelude in the Jamahiriyya page 49. -- 4 Egypt, Arabic, and Grasping Difference page 62. -- 5 Yemen: Modernisation Without Colonization page 74. -- 6 "Beneath Israel, Palestine" page 93. -- 7 Syria and Bilad Al-Sham page 108. -- 8 The Other "at Home," or: Islam in France page 132. -- Part II: Political Islam: The stakes of an alternative interpretation -- 9 Being a Political Scientist of the Muslim World page 145. -- 10 Saving the Other's "Others": A French Obsession page 160. -- 11 The Political Cost of Dissent page 169. -- 12 Between Judges and Spooks page 188. -- 13 Wrestling with the Research of Others: Olivier Roy, Gilles Kepel and Islamism page 196. -- 14 The Charlie Hebdo Attacks: Failure of Islam-or Failure of Politics? page 212. -- Conclusion: Where Do We Go Now? page 227. -- Index page 233.
- Call Number
- JFE 21-342
- ISBN
- 1526143437
- 9781526143433
- 1526494523
- 9781526494528
- OCLC
- 1104059100
- Author
- Burgat, François, author.
- Title
- Understanding political Islam / François Burgat ; Translated by Thomas Hill.
- Publisher
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2020.
- Copyright Date
- ©2016
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Hill, Thomas, translator.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 21-342