Authors: Edmund Burke (Editor), Ira M. Lapidus
ISBN-13: 9780520068681, ISBN-10: 0520068688
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University of California Press
Date Published: March 1990
Edition: 1st Edition
Edmund Burke III is Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and Ira M. Lapidus is Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley.
Taken together the essays in this work not only provide new research essential to the study of Islamic societies and Muslim peoples, but also set a new standard for the concrete study of local situations and illuminate the forces shaping the history of modern Muslim societies.
This collection is unique in its sophisticated interpretation of the social protest and political resistance movements in Muslim countries during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The contributors take two principal approaches to the study of their subject. Utilizing "new cultural history," they explore how particular movements have deployed the cultural and religious resources of Islam to mobilize and legitimize insurgent political action. Others rely on "new social history" to study the economic, political, and social contexts in which movements of anti-colonial resistance and revolution have developed. This work brings together contributions from specialists on Islamic North Africa, Egypt, the Arab fertile crescent, Iran and India.
Maps | vii | |
Preface | xiii | |
List of Abbreviations | xvii | |
Part 1 | Islamic Politics or Social Movements? | |
1. | Islamic Political Movements: Patterns of Historical Change | 3 |
2. | Islam and Social Movements: Methodological Reflections | 17 |
Part 2 | Nineteenth-Century Anti-Colonial Resistance and Millenarianism in the Marghrib and the Sudan | |
3. | Rural Uprisings as Political Movements in Colonial Algeria, 1851-1914 | 39 |
4. | Saints, Mahdis, and Arms: Religion and Resistance in Nineteenth-Century North Africa | 60 |
5. | The Transformation of a Saintly Lineage in the Northwest Aures Mountains (Algeria): Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries | 81 |
6. | Abu Jummayza: The Mahdi's Musaylima? | 97 |
Part 3 | Islam and Nationalism: Secular or Communal? | |
7. | The Roots of Muslim Separatism in South Asia: Personal Practice and Public Structures in Kanpur and Bombay | 115 |
8. | The Shahidganj Mosque Incident: A Prelude to Pakistan | 146 |
9. | The Role of the Palestinian Peasantry in the Great Revolt (1936-1939) | 169 |
Part 4 | The Working Class Between Nationalism, Communism, and Islam | |
10. | Islam, Marxism, and the Shubra al-Khayma Textile Workers: Muslim Brothers and Communists in the Egyptian Trade Union Movement | 207 |
11. | Muslim Union Politics in Egypt: Two Cases | 228 |
12. | Islamic Political Movements in Northern Nigeria: The Problem of Class Analysis | 244 |
Part 5 | Revolution in Iran | |
13. | Imam Khomeini, 1902-1962: The Pre-Revolutionary Years | 263 |
14. | 'Ali Shari'ati: Ideologue of the Iranian Revolution | 289 |
15. | Iranian Revolutions in Comparative Perspective | 298 |
List of Contributors | 315 | |
Glossary of Selected Terms | 317 | |
Index | 321 |