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Islam's fateful path : the critical choices facing modern Muslims / Zidane Meriboute ; translated by John King.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: French Publication details: London ; New York : I.B. Tauris ; New York : Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.Description: viii, 246 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 1845117409 (hbk.)
  • 9781845117405 (hbk.)
  • 1845117417 (pbk.)
  • 9781845117412 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 297.09 22
LOC classification:
  • BP 161.3 .M48 2008
Contents:
Contents:
Islam in the first generation : Muhammad's state from the ashes of pre-Islamic society -- The second generation of political Islam : Ibn Taymiyya and Ibn Abd al-Wahhab -- The third generation of Islam : the fathers of contemporary Islamism : Al-Banna, Qutb, Mawdudi -- The three generations of Islamists in their social dimension : the issue of apostasy -- The Islamic concept of the law of armed conflict : Muslim law in time of war -- The three generations of Islamism -- The first generation of rationalism and mysticism in the Muslim world -- The second and third generations of rationalists and new-Sufism : from Jamal Ad-Din Al-Afghani and Muhammad Abduh to Edward Said -- The Muslim mystics and rationalists : the social programme -- Nationalism, Sufism and religious fundamentalism : Egypt, Turkey and Algeria -- Africa : the struggle for peaceful Muslim spirituality.
Item type: Books

Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-240) and index.

Contents:

Islam in the first generation : Muhammad's state from the ashes of pre-Islamic society --
The second generation of political Islam : Ibn Taymiyya and Ibn Abd al-Wahhab --
The third generation of Islam : the fathers of contemporary Islamism : Al-Banna, Qutb, Mawdudi --
The three generations of Islamists in their social dimension : the issue of apostasy --
The Islamic concept of the law of armed conflict : Muslim law in time of war --
The three generations of Islamism --
The first generation of rationalism and mysticism in the Muslim world --
The second and third generations of rationalists and new-Sufism : from Jamal Ad-Din Al-Afghani and Muhammad Abduh to Edward Said --
The Muslim mystics and rationalists : the social programme --
Nationalism, Sufism and religious fundamentalism : Egypt, Turkey and Algeria --
Africa : the struggle for peaceful Muslim spirituality.

Translated from the French.