What Is Moderate Islam? (eBook)

Richard L. Benkin (Herausgeber)

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2017
252 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-3742-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Radical Islam is a major affliction of the contemporary world. Each year, radical Islamists carry out terrorist attacks that result in a massive death toll, almost all involving noncombatants and innocents. Estimates of how many Muslims could be considered followers of radical Islam vary widely, and there are few guides to help determine moderates versus radicals. Observers often sit at the extremes, either seeing all Muslims as open or closeted jihadis or recoiling from any attempt to link Islam with international terror. Both positions are overly simplistic, and the lack of rational principles to absolve the innocent and identify the accomplices of terror has led to governments and individuals mistakenly accepting jihadis as moderate. What is Moderate Islam? brings together an array of scholarsMuslims and non-Muslimsto provide this missing insight. This wide-ranging collection examines the relationship among Islam, civil society, and the state. The contributorsincluding both Muslims and non-Muslimsinvestigate how radical Islamists can be distinguished from moderate Muslims, analyze the potential for moderate Islamic governance, and challenge monolithic conceptions of Islam.

Autor

Richard L. Benkin received a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and is author of A Quiet Case of Ethnic Cleansing: The Murder of Bangladesh's Hindus.

Inhalt

Introduction: Who is a Moderate Muslim? Richard L. BenkinChapter 1: Smoking out Islamists, Daniel PipesChapter 2: Islamist Extremism: Threat to World Peace, Kulbhushan WarikooChapter 3: Wither Moderate Islam: Malaysian Style, Sunil KukrejaChapter 4: Is There a Non-Radical Islam?, Naseer DashtiChapter 5: An Islam That Rejects Islamists: The Case of the Baloch, Meerain BalochChapter 6: The Debate about Radical versus Non-Radical Islam, Amitabh TripathiChapter 7: Moderate Islam Is an Illusion—at Least for Now, Umar Duad KhattakChapter 8: Being Pakhtun: Interview with a Muslim Female Living in Exile, Richard L. Benkin and AnonymousChapter 9: Balochistan to the Road of Independence, Aziz BalochChapter 10: South Asian Muslim Attitudes towards Jews, Israel, and Zionism, Navras Jaat AafreediChapter 11: The Myth of Bangladesh as a Moderate Muslim Nation, Richard L. Benkin

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.4.2017
• Co-Autor: Navras Jaat Aafreedi, Amitabh Tripathi, Kulbhushan Warikoo, a Pashtun Muslim woman Anonymous Anonymous, Aziz Baloch, Meerain Baloch, Richard L. Benkin, Naseer Dashti, Umar Duad Khattak, Sunil Kukreja, Daniel Pipes
• Zusatzinfo: 3 Illustrations including: - 1 Maps; - 2 Tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: Asian Studies • Islam • Moderate Islam • Radical Islam • Religion • terrorism
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-3742-1 / 1498537421
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-3742-1 / 9781498537421