Scriptural politics
Subtitle: the Bible and the Koran as political models in the Middle East and Africa
By: edited by Niels Kastfelt
Contributors: Kastfelt, Niels
Edition: 1st Africa World Press, Inc. ed
Publisher: Africa World Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Trenton, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
Subjects: Bible; Koran; Religion and politics -- Middle East; Religion and politics -- Africa
Notes: Includes bibliographical referencesand index
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Niels Kastfelt; title: The Bible as a political document in Africa / Paul Gifford; title: The Qurʾan as a political mdel / Ahmad S. Moussalli; title: The Bible, the Qurʾan and the African polity : towards a secular state? / Holger Bernt Hansen; title: Sharia and Sunna in the Qurʾan and in the writings of Sayyid Qutb / Jørgen Baek Simonsen; title: Al-Islām huwa al-ḥāl : the Qurʾan and contemporary Islamic finance / Endre Stiansen; title: The Bible, the Qurʾan and the conflict in South Sudan / M.A. Mohamed Salih; title: The Qurʾan and the Bible as models for politics : the constrasting experience of Zambia and Egypt / Monte Palmer; title: The Bible, the Qurʾan and political competition in Uganda / Michael Twaddle; title: Pentecostalism and the politics of prophetic power : religious modernity in Ghana / Rijk van Dijk; title: From domination to participation : the politics of religion and ethnicity in Northern Cameroon / Quentin Gausset; title: Seek ye first the Christian political kingdom : the Bible as a political model in the Nigerian Middle Belt / Niels Kastfelt