Face to face with political Islam
By: François Burgat.
Publisher: I. B. Tauris; In the U.S. and Canada distributed by Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2003
Place of publication: London; New York; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
Subjects: Islam -- 20th century; Islam and politics; Violence -- Religious aspects -- Islam
Work titles: Islamisme en face.
Description: "The portrayal of Islamic movements as a tide of religious fanaticism threatening the West, and major participants in the coming "clash of civilizations", has provoked a multifaceted debate of great significance to the future of international relations. This text argues that political Islam's desire to restore a culture distorted by colonization does not necessarily compromise its progress to more democracy and greater tolerance. From Rabat to Gaza, through Algiers and Cairo, the author carried out his enquiry through interviews with prominent Islamists, and he allows them to speak for themselves in the book. Among the issues addressed are the relationship between Islam and modernity, Islamism and women, and questions of violence."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Arabs; title: from 'Fellaghas' to 'fundamentalists'; title: From nationalism to Islamism; title: From the secular break to the reconstruction of identity; title: From one Islamism to another: Islamism between reaction and action; title: Revolutionary violence and unofficial violence; title: Egypt: 'anti-copt Islamism'; title: Egypt: the spiral of violence; title: Algeria: Islamism against the intellectuals?; title: Gaza: the Islamists 'against peace'; title: Allah or the people? Islamists and democracy?; title: Islamism and women; title: From imported to imposed modernity; title: Islamism today.