RETHINKING ISLAMIST POLITICS Culture, the State and Islamism

• Main Author: Salwa Ismail (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: London, New York I.B Taurus and Co Ltd 2003
• Subjects: Islam and politics
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In an atmosphere of growing concern over the threat posed by Islamist violence, political Islamism has become the most important of geopolitical issues. In the process, it has been misrepresented. Contrary to what many believe, Islamist movements are characterised by their diversity. Revisiting the...

Table of Contents:

• The study of Islamism revisited
• Confronting the other : conservative Islamism in Egypt
• Religious 'orthodoxy' as public morality
• The state, Islamism and cultural politics in Egypt
• Contemporary Islamism as popular movement : socio-spatial determinants in the Cairo urban setting
• Islamist politics in Algeria and Tunisia : a state-society perspective
• The paradox of Islamist politics.