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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... consequence of the emergence of nationalism is the concept of the nation - state : that is , the ethnic nation and the state being ( roughly ) coexistent . Thus , Westerners are prone to speak of nation as syn- onymous with state and ...
... consequence only when the tribe is of considerable size or when it expands by way of merger or confeder- ation . In the latter case , kin altruism again becomes an operative factor . The stronger ' aşabîya absorbs the weaker one , and ...
... consequence was the display of a quite non - modern form of militarism . In Iran , revolution replaced the Shah's regime with Khomeini's Islamic Republic , whose propaganda soon brought on war with Iraq . The ill - prepared Tehran ...
Contents
Cultures in History | 13 |
Contrast in Ethics | 27 |
Critique of Endeavors | 53 |
Copyright | |
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