Woodrow Wilson Center Press: Between the State and Islam (Paperback)

Professor Charles E Butterworth; Jacob Blaustein Professor of International Organization and Conflict Resolution and Director of African Studies I William Zartman; Lee H Hamilton
Woodrow Wilson Center Press
 9780521789721
0-521-78972-9

Heretofore, the study of the Middle East has focused almost exclusively on Islam and on the regime, especially on its nondemocratic aspects. It has done so at the expense of accounting fully for the forces.

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of skepticism, liberty, and creativity that struggle against Islamic conformism and state hegemony. This volume examines how Middle Eastern peoples in the 19th and 20th centuries lived and flourished while trying to shape their political and religious surroundings outside the formal structures of established religion and the state.