Islamic Exceptionalism. How The Struggle Over Islam Is Reshaping The World

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Publisher: St Martin's Press
Publisher Place: New York
Publisher Year: 2016
Edition: First Edition

Description: 320 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Shortlisted for the 2017 Lionel Gelber PrizeIn Islamic Exceptionalism, Brookings Institution scholar and acclaimed author Shadi Hamid offers a novel and provocative argument on how Islam is, in fact, "exceptional" in how it relates to politics, with profound implications for how we understand the future of the Middle East. Divides among citizens arent just about power but are products of fundamental disagreements over the very nature and purpose of the modern nation state-and the vexing problem of religions role in public life. 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 regions descent into violence. Islamic Exceptionalism is a vital contribution to our understanding of Islams past and present, and its outsized role in modern politics. We dont have to like it, but we have to understand it-because Islam, as a religion and as an idea, will continue to be a force that shapes not just the region, but the West as well in the decades to come.

ISBN: 9781250061010