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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... notion of “ persons ” in Arab antiquity and Islam , we still lack an in depth work comparable to Mauss , Marcel , " Une categorie de L'esprit humain : La notion de personne , celle de ' moi , " " originally published in Journal of the ...
... notions in a manner compati- ble with the Shari'a precepts ; and re - interpreting the latter with the view of accommodating the needs generated by the challenges of the West.93 Focusing on the factors promoting the rise of the modern ...
... notion of citizenship was thus making a breakthrough in Islamdom owing to the influence Western ideas have had on the organisation and " modernisation " of the institu- tions and mode of government of the Ottoman Empire , and on the ...
Contents
Cultures in History | 13 |
Contrast in Ethics | 27 |
Critique of Endeavors | 53 |
Copyright | |
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