[Rezension von: Piscatori, James P., 1949-, Islam beyond borders]
Professor James Piscatori and Professor Amin Saikal are the established names in the field of political Islam. Piscatori and Saikal offer a nuanced, sophisticated, and well-researched argument to show that the Islamic concept of umma (a community of all Muslims) continues to influence a popular symb...
| Published in: | A journal of church and state |
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
[2021]
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| In: |
A journal of church and state
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| Review of: | Islam beyond borders (Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019) (Mostofa, Shafi Md)
Islam beyond borders (Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019) (Mostofa, Shafi Md) |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Islam
/ Ummah (Religion)
/ Politics
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| RelBib Classification: | BJ Islam SA Church law; state-church law |
| Further subjects: | B
Book review
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| Summary: | Professor James Piscatori and Professor Amin Saikal are the established names in the field of political Islam. Piscatori and Saikal offer a nuanced, sophisticated, and well-researched argument to show that the Islamic concept of umma (a community of all Muslims) continues to influence a popular symbolic appeal of Muslim unity and an exclusive Muslim identity, although umma fails to provide a monolithic idea as a concrete project for all Muslims. Consequently, this has become a powerful “tool for a variety of social and political actors” (p. 160) to advance their (Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Islamic State) local authoritarian and global... |
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| ISSN: | 2040-4867 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jcs/csaa089 |