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Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle Over Islam Is Reshaping the World
Shadi Hamid
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Paperback. BIC Classification: 1FB; GTB; HRAM2; JFSR2; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Hamid argues for a new understanding of how Islam and Islamism shape politics by examining different models of reckoning with the problem of religion and state, including the terrifying - and alarmingly successful - example of ISIS. With unprecedented access to Islamist activists and leaders across the region, Hamid offers a panoramic and ambitious interpretation of the region's descent into violence. Islamic Exceptionalism is a vital contribution to our understanding of Islam's past and present, and its out sized role in modern politics. We don't have to like it, but we have to understand it - because Islam, as a ... Read more
Hamid argues for a new understanding of how Islam and Islamism shape politics by examining different models of reckoning with the problem of religion and state, including the terrifying - and alarmingly successful - example of ISIS. With unprecedented access to Islamist activists and leaders across the region, Hamid offers a panoramic and ambitious interpretation of the region's descent into violence. Islamic Exceptionalism is a vital contribution to our understanding of Islam's past and present, and its out sized role in modern politics. We don't have to like it, but we have to understand it - because Islam, as a ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
St Martin´s Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781250135131
SKU
V9781250135131
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About Shadi Hamid
Shadi Hamid is a senior fellow in the Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World at the Brookings Institution and a contributing writer for The Atlantic. He is also the author of Temptations of Power: Islamists and Illiberal Democracy in a New Middle East. Hamid lives in Washington, D.C.
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