Islam and power
By: edited by Alexander S. Cudsi and Ali E. Hillal Dessouki.
Contributors: Cudsi, Alexander S.; Hilāl, ʻAlī al-Dīn.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 1981
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
Subjects: Islam and politics -- Addresses, essays, lectures; Islam -- History -- Addresses, essays, lectures
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Alexander S. Cudsi and Ali E. Hillal Dessouki; title: Activism and quietism in Islam / Michael Cook; title: Towards a Muslim theory of history / Thomas Naff; title: The ideologisation of Islam in the contemporary Muslim world / Ali Merad; title: Changing concepts of authority in the late ninth/fifteenth and early tenth/sixteenth centuries / Ann Lambton; title: Ayatolla Khomeini's concept of Islamic government / Abbas Kelidar; title: Official Islam and Sufi brotherhoods in the Soviet Union today / Alexandre Bennigsen; title: The resurgence of Islamic organisations in Egypt / Ali E. Hillal Dessouki; title: Religious resistance and State power in Algeria / Jean-Claude Vatin; title: Islam and power in Black Africa / Donal B. Cruise O'Brien; title: Islamic resurgence, a critical view / P.J. Vatikiotis.