Radical Arab Nationalism and Political Islam

Radical Arab Nationalism and Political Islam

Radical Arab Nationalism and Political Islam

Radical Arab Nationalism and Political Islam

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Overview

In Radical Arab Nationalism and Political Islam, Lahouari Addi attempts to assess the history and political legacy of radical Arab nationalism to show that it contained the seeds of its own destruction.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781626164505
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Publication date: 07/01/2017
Pages: 287
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Lahouari Addi is a professor at the Institut d’Études Politiques at the University of Lyon, and research fellow at the Centre de Recherche en Anthropologie Sociale et Culturelle in Oran, Algeria. He is the author of numerous books and articles on North Africa and political Islam, including Deux anthropologues au Maghreb: Ernest Gellner et Clifford Geertz and L’Algérie et la Democratie.

Table of Contents

PrefaceIntroduction

Part I. Origins and Perspectives of Arab Nationalism1. The Emergence and Development of Arab NationalismWahhabism as a Proto-NationalismLiberal Nationalism in EgyptFrom Liberal Arabism to Radical Arab Nationalism

2. The Ideological Limitations of Radical Arab NationalismRadical Arab Nationalism against the Market EconomyPopulism against SocietyEconomism as a Response to Cultural Crisis

3. Nationalism and NationThe Militarization of PoliticsThe Aggressive Nature of NationalismWhat Is a Nation if Its People Are Not Sovereign?

Part II. The Ideological and Political Dynamics of Islamism4. Islamism as Cultural Representation and Ideological WillThe Cultural Roots of IslamismThe Making of Islamist Ideology: Sayyid Qutb and Abul A’la MawdudiToward Post-Islamism?

5. Islamism and Democracy Democracy and Political Participation Th e Al hakimiyya li Allah SloganTh e Question of Sharia

6. The Ideological and Political Perspectives of Islamism The Cultural Heterogeneity of Contemporary Arab Society Al-Nahda, Sufi sm, and Islamism Eventful Regression

ConclusionIndexAbout the Author

What People are Saying About This

Susan Slymovics

Sociologist Lahouari Addi unpacks the dynamic histories of radical Arab nationalism and political Islam, two major competing ideologies and state-building projects in the contemporary Middle East and North Africa. This book is also an original and lucid intervention focusing on Algeria’s history through a wide variety of topics including secularization and Islamic law, sovereignty and authority, nationhood and modernity, morality and religion, ritual and social relationships.

Susan Slyomovics

Sociologist Lahouari Addi unpacks the dynamic histories of radical Arab nationalism and political Islam, two major competing ideologies and state-building projects in the contemporary Middle East and North Africa. This book is also an original and lucid intervention focusing on Algeria’s history through a wide variety of topics including secularization and Islamic law, sovereignty and authority, nationhood and modernity, morality and religion, ritual and social relationships.

I. William Zartman

This is an excellent work, even a great book in its field. It writes from the inside of its topics—Islam, modernity, nationalism—and brings them together to show both their meeting point and their incompatibilities. The work is erudite, committed, communicative, from a position of deep absorption of classics in all these fields. Addi joins Abdou, Arkoun, and Taha (good company) in trying to square the triangle and comes out with integrity.

William Zartman

This is an excellent work, even a great book in its field. It writes from the inside of its topics—Islam, modernity, nationalism—and brings them together to show both their meeting point and their incompatibilities. The work is erudite, committed, communicative, from a position of deep absorption of classics in all these fields. Addi joins Abdou, Arkoun, and Taha (good company) in trying to square the triangle and comes out with integrity.

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