Radicalism and political reform in the Islamic and western worlds / Kai Hafez ; translated by Alex S...
Radicalism and political reform in the Islamic and western worlds / Kai Hafez ; translated by Alex S...
Radicalism and political reform in the Islamic and western worlds / Kai Hafez ; translated by Alex Skinner.
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Publisher
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
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Date
2010.
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N320.557/25
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Language
English
German
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Physical content
vi, 253 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Machine generated contents note: Introduction; Part I. Modernity: 1. Concepts of modernity: reform, reformation and radicalism; 2. Political cultures and social movements: the social rationality of cultural change; Part II. Democracy: 3. The discourse of democratization: grey zones on the intersecti...
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Publisher
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Edition
1st English ed.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2010.
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Summary
"Over the last decade, political Islam has been denounced in the Western media and in the surrounding literature as a terrorist or fascist movement that is entirely at odds with Western democratic ideology. Kai Hafez's book overturns these arguments, contending that, despite its excesses, as a radical form of political opposition the movement plays...
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Radicalism and political reform in the Islamic and western worlds / Kai Hafez ; translated by Alex Skinner.
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"First published in German as Heiliger Krieg und Demokratie ... by Transcrip 2009"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N320.557/25
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ISBN
0521763207
9780521137119 (pbk.)
052113711X (pbk.)
9780521763202
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320.557
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991019865029702626
