Islamism and Islam

Explores the true nature of contemporary Islamism and the essential ways in which it differs from the religious faith of Islam, founded in 610. This title describes Islamism as a political ideology based on a reinvented version of Islamic law.

Informationen zum Autor Bassam Tibi is Professor Emeritus of International Relations! University of Gottingen and former A. D. White Professor-at-Large! Cornell University. In 2010! he was the Resnick Scholar for the Study of Antisemitism at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. He is the author of three dozen previous books! including most recently Islam's Predicament with Modernity. He lives in Gottingen! Germany. Klappentext Explores the true nature of contemporary Islamism and the essential ways in which it differs from the religious faith of Islam, founded in 610. This title describes Islamism as a political ideology based on a reinvented version of Islamic law. Zusammenfassung A distinguished scholar of international politics clarifies what is widely misunderstood in the West: Islam and Islamism are not two words for the same thing

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Bassam Tibi is the Koret Foundation Senior Fellow at Stanford University. He is also Professor Emeritus of International Relations, University of Gottingen, and former A. D. White Professor-at-Large, Cornell University. He is the author of three dozen previous books, including most recently Islam's Predicament with Modernity. He lives in Gottingen, Germany.

Résumé
A distinguished scholar of international politics clarifies what is widely misunderstood in the West: Islam and Islamism are not two words for the same thing