Globalized Islam – The Search for a New Ummah - Couverture rigide

Roy, Olivier

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0231134983 ISBN 13 : 9780231134989

Editeur : Columbia University Press, 2015

Synopsis

Book by Roy Olivier

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

ROY'[This] new book provides one of the best and most detailed snapshots of A"real existing IslamA" currently available.' ---The Guardian

'a new book by Roy [is] something of an event [A...] Globalised Islam is a highly original, meth-odologically rigorous [A...] superb and complex sociological study.' - The Washington Post'High-octane brainwork A... a large and highly intelligent contribution.' ---The Economist

'Olivier Roy is perhaps the most provocative and innovative writer on Islamism today. [A...] There is no more reliable guide to this labyrinth.' -Martin Kramer, Middle East Quarterly'A characteristically informed and incisive analysis of the new transnational movements and globalized responses that have developed in that past twenty years or so in the Muslim world. [A...] Roy is one of the most important analysts of political Islam today.' ---James Piscatori, fellow, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies and Wadham College, University of Oxford

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The search for a new Ummah world - including Hamas of Palestine and Hezbollah of Lebanon - and the uprooted militants who strive to establish an imaginary Ummah, or Muslim community, not attached to any particular society or territory. Roy provides a detailed comparison of three transnational movements, whether peaceful like Tablighi Jama'at and the Islamic brotherhoods, or violent, like Al Qaeda. He shows how neofundamentalism acknowledges without nostalgia the loss of pristine cultures identity that transcends the notion of culture. Thus contemporary Islamic fundamentalism is not a simple reaction against westernisation but a product and an agent of the complex forces of globalisation.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Columbia University Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0231134983
• ISBN 13: 9780231134989
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 320