Why do contemporary Muslim societies have problems of authoritarianism and socio-economic underdevelopment, despite their early history of intellectual creativity and economic progress? Kuru provides a comparative analysis of Muslim and Western European countries, focusing on the roles of religious, political, intellectual, and economic classes.
Why do contemporary Muslim societies have problems of authoritarianism and socio-economic underdevelopment, despite their early history of intellectual creativity and economic progress? Kuru provides a comparative analysis of Muslim and Western European countries, focusing on the roles of religious, political, intellectual, and economic classes.
Ahmet T. Kuru is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for Islamic and Arabic Studies at San Diego State University. He is the author of the award-winning Secularism and State Policies toward Religion: The United States, France, and Turkey (Cambridge, 2009) and co-editor (with Alfred Stepan) of Democracy, Islam, and Secularism in Turkey (2012). His works have been translated into Arabic, Chinese, French, and Turkish.
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Introduction Part I. Present: 1. Violence and peace 2. Authoritarianism and democracy 3. Socio-economic underdevelopment and development Part II. History: 4. Progress: scholars and merchants (seventh to eleventh centuries) 5. Crisis: the invaders (twelfth to fourteenth centuries) 6. Power: three Muslim empires (fifteenth to seventeenth centuries) 7. Collapse: Western colonialism and Muslim reformists (eighteenth to nineteenth centuries) Conclusion.
Introduction Part I. Present: 1. Violence and peace 2. Authoritarianism and democracy 3. Socio-economic underdevelopment and development Part II. History: 4. Progress: scholars and merchants (seventh to eleventh centuries) 5. Crisis: the invaders (twelfth to fourteenth centuries) 6. Power: three Muslim empires (fifteenth to seventeenth centuries) 7. Collapse: Western colonialism and Muslim reformists (eighteenth to nineteenth centuries) Conclusion.
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