A modern history of the Islamic world
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A modern history of the Islamic world
I.B. Tauris, 2002, c2000
New ed
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Geschichte der islamischen Welt im 20. Jahrhundert
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 338-363) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The Islamic world - those countries where Islam is the dominant or most important religion - encompasses territories as far apart as Morocco, Indonesia, Somalia and Bosnia, and includes an extraordinarily diverse range of societies and cultures. Charting the 20th-century history of these societies, this book examines both what they have in common and their equally profound differences. Political change provides the chronological framework for the book, but is seen throughout in the context of culture and society. Opening with a survey of the impact of colonialism and its attendant modernism on the Islamic world, the author moves on to explore the rise of bourgeois nationalism in the 1920s and 1930s, the era of independence movements (1939-1958), the complex relationship between Islamic cultures and the "republican" political culture of the Third World (1956-1973), the reassertion of Islamic ideologies in the 1970s and 1980s, and the issues surrounding the relationship between Islamic culture and civil society that have dominated debate in the early 1990s.
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