Popular Movements And Democratization in the Islamic World

by Kisaichi; Masatoshi

• ISBN13: 9780415398961
• ISBN10: 0415398967
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781134150601
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-10-30
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Ever since the terrorist incident of September 11 a general understanding seems to have arisen among people that the challenges posed by Islam have now acquired human and global dimensions. What is particularly worthy of note in this debate is the tendency to view all such confrontations from a dualistic standpoint, as tussles between the Western (democratic) world and the world of Islam. Popular Movements and Democratization in the Islamic World contains case studies of people's movements in diverse areas and periods, and it seeks to develop a comparative view of Islam and democracy. It also presents an alternate picture of the world's Muslim societies, one transcending the simple dichotomy of 'Islam and democracy.' Unraveling the complexities that have arisen between Islam and democracy is the principal task of Islamic scholars, and this book will undoubtedly prove a starting point for all such endeavors. While primarily intended for students and scholars Popular Movements and Democratizationin the Islamic World will prove of interest even to general readers with interests in Islamic studies.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	vii
Notes on contributors	viii
Preface	x
Acknowledgments	xii
1 Saints and sultans: religious authority and temporal power in precolonial Morocco	1	(32)
MOHAMED EL MANSOUR
2 Saints and Sufis in post-Communist Albania	33	(10)
NATHALIE CLAYER
3 Bridging the gap between pre-Soviet and post-Soviet Sufism in Ferghana valley (Uzbekistan): the Naqshbandi order between tradition and innovation	43	(14)
THIERRY ZARCONE
4 The Burhami order and Islamic resurgence in modern Egypt	57	(21)
MASATOSHI KISAICHI
5 The uprising of the "fearsome ruler of Lanao": banditry and the internalization of violence in a southern Philippine Muslim society during the 1930's	78	(22)
MIDORI KAWASHIMA
6 Democratisation in Indonesia and Malaysia	100	(26)
SYED FARID ALATAS
7 Penetration of "moderate" Islamism in contemporary Indonesia	126	(17)
KEN MIICHI
8 The development of secularism and non-sectarianism in the Middle East	143	(18)
YOSHIKO KURITA
9 Democratization and Islamic movements in Turkey	161	(23)
YASUSHI HAZAMA
Index	184