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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 12
... Classical philosophic works . Such books would gradually be taken to Western Europe as the climate for scholarship in Constantinople wors- ened over the decades . Meanwhile , a similar corpus of sources , albeit in Arabic , filtered ...
... Classical works - the writings of the Ancient Greeks and Romans - which dealt with the affairs of man in society , in contrast with Medieval Christian writers ' preoccupation with spiritual salvation . Familiarity with a range of Classical ...
... Classical Islam , Wiesbaden , 1977 , p . 53 ( emphasis added ) . See also , idem , The Muslim Concept of Freedom prior to the Nineteenth Century , Leiden , 1960. For a different view on the question of freedom in classical Islam and a ...
Contents
Cultures in History | 13 |
Contrast in Ethics | 27 |
Critique of Endeavors | 53 |
Copyright | |
2 other sections not shown