Islamism : what it means for the Middle East and the world /

An incisive analysis of Islamist movements in the Middle East A political, social, and cultural battle is currently raging in the Middle East. On one side are the Islamists, those who believe Islam should be the region's primary identity. In opposition are nationalists, secularists, royal famil...

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Main Author: Osman, Tarek
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven, CT : Yale University, 2016.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • The Islamists' coming to power
  • Halal money, Halal regimes
  • The Salafists, from cultural salons to Jihadists' battlefields
  • The Islamists' fall from power
  • The secularists' predicament
  • The minorities' fears
  • The Gulf's view of Islamism
  • Turkish Islamism as a model for the Arab world
  • Iranian Islamism as a model for the Arab world
  • Islamism and the West
  • The dilemmas of Islamist thinking now.