Islam, Civility and Political Culture

This book provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary exploration of civility and political culture in the Muslim world.

The contributions consider the changing interface between religion and politics throughout Islamic history, and into the present. Extending beyond saturated approaches of ‘political’ and/or ‘militant’ Islam, this collection captures the complex sociopolitical character of Islam, and identifies tensions between the political-secular and the sacred-religious in contempo...