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The State in Contemporary Islamic Thought: A Historical Survey of the Major Muslim Political Thinkers of the Modern Era
Abdelilah Belkeziz
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Paperback. Belkeziz argues that modern Islamic political thought succeeded in producing ideologies, but ultimately failed to produce a unified theory of state. This work is an essential encyclopedic resource for all scholars and researchers of Political Islam and will become a standard work in the field. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: HRH; JFSR2. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 159 x 26. Weight in Grams: 470.
In any debate on ‘Islam’ and ‘Modernity’, the notion of the state looms large. Abdelillah Belkeziz here charts the development of the concept of ‘the state’ (al-Dawlah) in Islamic discourse over the last two centuries. The result is a tour de force survey of the most influential Muslim thinkers of the modern era, which encompasses three successive waves: the Modernist trends of the early and later reformers such as Sayyed Jamal al-Din al-Afghani, Muhammad ‘Abduh and Rashid Rida; the transition and break with the Reformist trend associated with Hasan al-Banna; and the political rhetoric of Revivalists such as Sayyid Qutb ... Read more
In any debate on ‘Islam’ and ‘Modernity’, the notion of the state looms large. Abdelillah Belkeziz here charts the development of the concept of ‘the state’ (al-Dawlah) in Islamic discourse over the last two centuries. The result is a tour de force survey of the most influential Muslim thinkers of the modern era, which encompasses three successive waves: the Modernist trends of the early and later reformers such as Sayyed Jamal al-Din al-Afghani, Muhammad ‘Abduh and Rashid Rida; the transition and break with the Reformist trend associated with Hasan al-Banna; and the political rhetoric of Revivalists such as Sayyid Qutb ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780766492
SKU
V9781780766492
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About Abdelilah Belkeziz
Abdelillah Belkeziz is Professor of Philosophy at Hasan II University in Morocco. He is the author of several books, including The Formation of Political Islam: The Prophetic and Politics (2005) and Arabs and Modernity: A Study in the Discourse of Modernists (2007).
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