Authors: Salwa Ismail
ISBN-13: 9781860644689, ISBN-10: 1860644686
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: I. B.Tauris & Company, Limited
Date Published: June 2003
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Salwa Ismail is Director of the Middle East Politics Programmes in the Department of Politics at the University of Exeter.
For over twenty years the politics of Islamic activists have broadly been explained and understood in the West as a threat to all that is most valued in modern political discourse. Salwa Ismail now proposes a whole new way of examining the political culture of the world of Islamism. She revisits the main arguments and explanations that have been used over the past twenty years to understand Islamist activism, moderate as well as militant, and proposes a rethinking of Islamist politics.
Preface | ||
1 | The Study of Islamism Revisited | 1 |
2 | Confronting the Other: Conservative Islamism in Egypt | 27 |
3 | Religious 'Orthodoxy' as Public Morality: The State, Islamism, and Cultural Politics in Egypt | 58 |
4 | Contemporary Islamism as a Popular Movement: Socio-Spatial Determinants in the Cairo Urban Setting | 82 |
5 | Islamist Politics in Algeria and Tunisia: A State-Society Perspective | 114 |
6 | The Paradox of Islamist Politics | 160 |
Notes | 177 | |
Bibliography | 221 | |
Index | 241 |