Shaping the current Islamic reformation /

This book goes beyond the media presentation of the impact of Islam in the Middle East to consider the reality that lies behind it.

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Other Authors: Roberson, B. A. (Barbara Allen)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; Portland, OR : Frank Cass, 2003
Series:Cass series--history and society in the Islamic world.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • The shaping of the current Islamic reformation / B.A. Roberson
  • The politics of the umma : states and community in Islamic movements / Fred Halliday
  • Sunni and Shiʻi networking in the Middle East / Annabelle Böttcher
  • New centres and peripheries in European Islam? / Jorgen S. Nielsen
  • From jurists' law to statue law or what happens when the Shariʼa is codified / Rudolph Peters
  • Political aspects of modern Shiʻi legal discussions : Khumayni and Khuʼi on ijtihâd and qadaʼ / Robert Gleave
  • Islamic law as a core for political law : the withering of an Islamist illusion / Ann Elizabeth Mayer
  • Arab government responses to Islamic finance : the cases of Egypt and Saudi Arabia / Rodney Wilson
  • Islam interactive : Mediterranean Islamic expression on the World Wide Web / Gary R. Bunt
  • Islamic activism and social movement theory : a new direction for research / Quintan Wiktorowicz.