The revival and power of religious feelings among Muslims since the Iranian revolution presents a complicated and often perplexing picture of the politics of modern Islam. What are the ideas which have influenced the direction of these trends? Here, Hamis Enayat provides an answer by describing and interpreting some of the major Islamic political ideas, especially those expressed by Iranians and Egyptians, as well as thinkers from Pakistan, India, Lebanon, Syria and Iraq. He examines the political differences between the two main schools in Islam - Shi'ism and Sunnism. Also covered in the book is: the concept of the Islamic state; and the Muslim response to the challenge of alien and modern ideologies such as nationalism, democracy and socialism - as well as notions of Shi'i modernism.
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'Enayat's book makes a significant contribution to understanding the complexities of a situation involving the two most important Muslim communities as they are forced to share a single political space.'- Asian AffairsJOURNAL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES'...this title will for long remain a classic and redoubtable piece of scholarship...an essential reading for all those interested in and "insider's" analysis of the Islamic political thought and indeed for all students of political history.- Amidu Olalekan Sanni, Lagos State University
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Hamid Enayat was Reader in Modern Middle Eastern History at Oxford University and Fellow at St. Antony's College, Oxford. Prior to his death in 1980 he was also Professor of Political Science at Tehran University where he chaired the Department of Politics.
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An excellent introduction to 20th Century Islamist thought
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Enayat's book is now a little out of date, but it remains as good an introduction to the main threads of modern Islamist thought as is available. Although written for an academic audience the book is readable and highly recommended to anyone that wishes to look beyond the rhetoric of recent months to the reality of Islamic concepts of the state and the struggle of Muslim thinkers to describe the nature of authority in a post-caliphal world.
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The political and religious fervor among Muslims, symbolized by the Iranian Revolution, gives us an often perplexing picture of the politics of the Muslim world. What are the political beliefs of Muslims? What is meant by an "Islamic state"? Hamid Enayat answers these questions by interpreting and illuminating the major Islamic political ideas from Iran, Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Pakistan and India.
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