All politics are God's politics: Moroccan Islamism and the sacralization of democracy

Contemporary mass media descriptions of Muslims often suggest that Islam and Muslims are fundamentally undemocratic. Policy-makers in the West have weaponized these descriptions in attempts to legitimize anti-Muslim right-wing policy developments across the West and in the United States in particula...

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主要作者: Khanani, Ahmed (Author)
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語言:English
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出版: New Brunswick Camden Newark London Rutgers University Press [2021]
In:Year: 2021
Further subjects:B 社會行為
B 政治行為
B Democracy Religious aspects 伊斯蘭教
B 民主
B 伊斯兰教与政治
B 宗教
B Islam and politics (Morocco)
B 伊斯蘭教
B 政治
B 語言使用
B Morocco Politics and government
B 基本價值
B Marokko
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總結:Contemporary mass media descriptions of Muslims often suggest that Islam and Muslims are fundamentally undemocratic. Policy-makers in the West have weaponized these descriptions in attempts to legitimize anti-Muslim right-wing policy developments across the West and in the United States in particular, from surveillance in the aftermath of 9/11 to the anti-Islamic travel ban of 2017. But are Muslims undemocratic? Ahmed Khanani argues that this is not the case. In All Politics are God's Politics, Khanani shows that in fact, the opposite holds true: for socially conservative, politically active Muslims (Islamists), democracy or dimuqrāṭiyya reflects and extends their religious values. By drawing on conversations with over 100 Islamists in Morocco, this book enables readers to understand and appreciate the significance of dimuqrāṭiyya as a concept alongside new prospects for Islam and democracy in the Arab Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Khanani's in-depth analysis of the Moroccan case brings these Islamists and their attending political views to the forefront.
Item Description:Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 189-210, Register
ISBN:1978818610