Between the State and Islam

by Edited by Charles E. Butterworth , I. William Zartman

• ISBN13: 9780521789721
• ISBN10: 0521789729
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-01-15
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	1	(8)
Charles E. Butterworth
I. William Zartman
Part I: Nineteenth Century
Preface	9	(5)
Charles E. Butterworth
On What Is Between, Even Beyond, the Paradigms of the State and Islam	14	(17)
Charles E. Butterworth
The Impact of Technology Change on the Nineteenth-Century Arab World	31	(28)
Antoine B. Zahlan
An Islamic Political Formula in Transformation: Islam, Identity, and Nationalism in the History of the Volga Tatars	59	(31)
Serif Mardin
Muslim Opposition Thinkers in the Nineteenth Century	90	(20)
Said Bensaid Alaoui
Part II: Twentieth Century
Preface	105	(5)
I. William Zartman
Against the Taboos of Islam: Anti-Conformist Tendencies in Contemporary Arab/Islamic Thought	110	(24)
As'ad AbuKhalil
Democratic Thought in the Arab World: An Alternative to the Patron State	134	(24)
Iliya Harik
Political Parties Between State Power and Islamist Opposition	158	(26)
Ibrahim A. Karawan
Liberal Professionals in the Contemporary Arab World	184	(23)
Timothy J. Piro
Daniel Lerner Revisited: The Audio-Visual Media and Its Reception: Two North African Cases	207	(24)
Jean Leca
Meriem Verges
Mounia Bennani-Chraibi
Islam, the State, and Democracy: The Contradictions	231	(14)
I. William Zartman
Contributors	245	(4)
Index	249