States Without Citizens: Understanding the Islamic CrisisTerrorist attacks on America and its allies and persistent violence in the Islamic world point to a crisis in Islamic society, which States without Citizens attributes to an unfulfilled quest for an Islamic renaissance. The Islamic states, whose borders were arbitrarily imposed by Western states, are beset by pervasive socioeconomic problems—authoritarian rule, economic inequities, educational shortcomings, development project failures, sexual frustration—that are being exploited by radical Islamists. Native attempts to modernize Islamic society by adopting Western ways have repeatedly foundered because they have sought to replicate the trappings of state power while neglecting their foundation in civic ethics. To mitigate the violence engendered by the Islamic crisis, the author recommends that culturally authentic institutions must be created that will instill a civic ethics of common cause and public service. |
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... figures of jihad lore , Harun al - Rashid ( alternately , Rasheed ) , by association with the tales of " the Thousand and One Nights , " and Saladin , as the noble antagonist of the Crusaders , par- ticularly after the 2005 movie ...
... figure of " man betrayed " in Shi'i lore . ' Ali's son Husayn ( Hoseyn ) , grandson of the Prophet , holds at least equal reverence among the Shi'a . His early life was not the active story that his father's was , but he , too ...
... figures of more recent renown . Seif Da'na reported that in twelfth grade texts , " the stories told are those of Abd al - Qader of Algeria , Omar al - Mukhtar of Libya , Iz ad - Din al - Kassam and Abd al - Kader al - Husseini of ...
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Cultures in History | 13 |
Contrast in Ethics | 27 |
Critique of Endeavors | 53 |
Copyright | |
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