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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... human thought , belief , behavior , and material production that depends on man's capability to learn and transmit knowledge to succeeding gen- erations . Thus , culture is manifested in customs , myth , literature , history ...
... human nature that emerged during the Enlighten- ment and have become foundational principles of the modern democratic political system : beliefs in ( 1 ) inherent equality of all humans , as rational beings , ( 2 ) the inalienable ...
... human enterprise in itself is inconsequential . In the overall scheme , Islamic history is seen in terms of group dynamism rather than individual prowess , as would be the case in the West . In articulating his theory of tribalism as ...
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Cultures in History | 13 |
Contrast in Ethics | 27 |
Critique of Endeavors | 53 |
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