Ahmet T. Kuru (San Diego State University)

Broschiertes Buch

Islam, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 322
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 488g
• ISBN-13: 9781108409476
• ISBN-10: 1108409474
• Artikelnr.: 55297927