Islam, authoritarianism, and underdevelopment : a global and historical comparison
Why do Muslim-majority countries exhibit high levels of authoritarianism and low levels of socio-economic development in comparison to world averages? Ahmet T. Kuru criticizes explanations which point to Islam as the cause of this disparity, because Muslims were philosophically and socio-economicall...
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| Materyal Türü: | Livre numérique |
| Dil: | Anglais |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press
2019.
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| Online Erişim: | Accès sur la plateforme Cambridge University Press Accès sur la plateforme ISTEX (corpus CUP) Accès Université d'Orléans |
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Cambridge University Press - CUP - Corpus Science politique (Licence nationale) |
| Autres localisations: | Voir dans le Sudoc |
| Edition sous un autre format: | • Islam, authoritarianism, and underdevelopment, a global and historical comparison, Ahmet T. Kuru, 2019, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Cambridge University Press, 1 vol. (xvii, 303 p.), 978-1-108-41909-3 |
İçindekiler:
- Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Contents; Maps; Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; Methodology, Theory, and Normative Concerns; Spelling, Names, and Translations; Introduction; The Ulema-State Alliance; Secularists and Islamic Actors; Religion and the State (Din wa Dawla); Part I Present; 1 Violence and Peace; Western Colonization and Occupation; The Role of Islam; The Ulema; The Authoritarian State; Conclusion; 2 Authoritarianism and Democracy; Western Colonization and Occupation; The Role of Islam; Patriarchy; Secular and Islamic States; The Ulema Ulema-State AlliancesMedieval Ideas, Modern Authoritarianism; Oil and the Rentier State; Economic Underdevelopment; Conclusion; 3 Socioeconomic Underdevelopment and Development; Western Colonization and Exploitation; The Roles of Islam and the Ulema; Authoritarianism and the Vicious Circle; History and Institutions; Conclusion; Part II History; 4 Progress: Scholars and Merchants (Seventh to Eleventh Centuries); Islam in Asia, Africa, and Europe; Islamic Scholars, the State, and Religious Diversity; The Philosophers; The Merchants; Neither Imitation, nor Orthodoxy; Islamic Civilizing Process Muslims and Western ChristiansDin wa Dawla (Religion and the State); Sunni Orthodoxy; The Qadiri Creed and Mawardi; The Iqta System; The Military State and Conquests; The Seljuks and the Ulema; Ghazali and the Decline Thesis; The Decline Thesis; Ghazali and the Decline; The Sasanian Influence on Muslim Political Thought; Conclusion; 5 Crisis: The Invasions (Twelfth to Fourteenth Centuries); The Invaders; The Crusaders; The Mongols; Timur; The Invaders and the ''Decline''; Waning of Philosophers: From Ghazali to Ibn Khaldun; Central Asia, Iran, and Iraq; Egypt, Syria, and Anatolia Andalus and Northwest AfricaIbn Rushd; Ibn Khaldun; Sufism; Sufism Replacing Philosophy; Sufism and the State; Muslim Political Thought; Marginalization of Merchants; Transformation of Western Europe; Muslim Influence on Western Europe; Conclusion; 6 Power: Three Muslim Empires (Fifteenth to Seventeenth Centuries); The Ulema-State Alliance; The Natural Sciences and Philosophy; The Decline Thesis, Again; Trivialization of Merchants; The Rise of Western Europe; Alternative Explanations of the Rise of Western Europe; Alternative Explanations of the Decline of the Muslim World; Conclusion 7 Collapse: Western Colonialism and Muslim Reformists (Eighteenth to Nineteenth Centuries)Printing Presses and Quran Translations; Western Dominance; Westernization Reforms and Reformist Intellectuals; Conclusion; Conclusion; Comparative Historical Development; Violence, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment; No Intelligentsia/Bourgeoisie, No Development; Recommendations; Bibliography; Index