The failure of political Islam / Olivier Roy ; translated by Carol Volk.

For many Westerners, ours seems to be the era of the "Islamic threat," with radical Muslims everywhere on the rise and on the march, remaking societies and altering the landscape of contemporary politics. In a powerful corrective to this view, the French political philosopher Olivier Roy p...

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Main Author: Roy, Olivier, 1949-
Other Authors: Volk, Carol (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
French
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1996.
Edition:1st Harvard University Press paperback edition.
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Uniform Title:Echec de l'islam politique.

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505 0 |a Islam and politics : from tradition to reformism -- The concepts of Islamism -- The sociology of Islamism -- The impasses of Islamist ideology -- Neofundamentalism : from the Muslim brotherhood to the Algerian fis -- The Islamist new intellectuals -- The geostrategy of Islamism : states and networks -- The Islamic economy : between illusions and rhetoric -- Afghanistan : jihad and traditional society -- Iran : Shiism and revolution -- The Shiite factor in Iran's foreign policy -- Conclusion : tomorrow's gray areas. 
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