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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... relation and identity . A citizen is a person who owes allegiance to a state in return for benefits . This relation is sometimes described as " duties versus rights . " A citizen is also a person who identifies ( or is identified ) with ...
... relation to his environment - instead of in relation to divinity and the hereafter . The intellectual task required taking a per- spective on civilization , that is , the development of surplus wealth and sophisticated arts and crafts ...
... relation between the individual and the state . To accommodate the theological moralist perspective , we might recast the previous paradigm for Islamic society as follows . · The person interacts with the state in a manner that is ...
Contents
Cultures in History | 13 |
Contrast in Ethics | 27 |
Critique of Endeavors | 53 |
Copyright | |
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