Understanding political Islam
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Understanding political Islam
Manchester University Press, 2020
1st English-language ed
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Comprendre l'islam politique : une trajectoire de recherche sur l'altérité islamiste, 1973-2016
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Originally published: Paris : Découverte, 2016
Includes index
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Understanding Political Islam retraces the human and intellectual development that led Francois Burgat to a very firm conviction: that the roots of the tensions that afflict the Western world's relationship with the Muslim world are political rather than ideological. In his compelling account of the interactions between personal life-history and professional research trajectories, Burgat examines how the rise of political Islam has been expressed: first in the Arab world, then in its interactions with European and Western societies. An essential continuation of his work on Islamism, Burgat's unique field research and 'political trespassing' marks an overdue challenge to the academic mainstream. -- .
Table of Contents
Preface to the English Edition
Introduction: Writing the History of a Research Career
Part I: Discovering the Muslim "Other"
1 Intuitive Accumulation
2 Algeria: Approaching the Other
3 Prelude in the Jamahiriyya
4 Egypt, Arabic, and Grasping Difference
5 Yemen: Modernisation Without Colonization
6 "Beneath Israel, Palestine"
7 Syria and Bilad Al-Sham
Part II: Political Islam: The stakes of an alternative interpretation
9 Being a Political Scientist of the Muslim World
10 Saving the Other's "Others": A French Obsession
11 The Political Cost of Dissent
12 Between Judges and Spooks
13 Wrestling with the Research of Others: Olivier Roy, Gilles Kepel and Islamism
14 The Charlie Hebdo Attacks: Failure of Islam-or Failure of Politics?
Conclusion: Where Do We Go Now? -- .
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