TY - BOOK AU - Sabet,Amr G.E. TI - Islam and the Political: Theory, Governance and International Relations T2 - Decolonial Studies, Postcolonial Horizons Series SN - 9781849643818 AV - BP173.6 -- .S22 2008eb U1 - 320.557 PY - 2008/// CY - London PB - Pluto Press KW - Islam and state KW - Islam and politics KW - Islamic countries -- Politics and government KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Religion, Politics, and Social Change: A Theoretical Framework -- Islam and the Appropriation of Modernity -- Wilayat al-Faqih: An Islamic Theory of Elite Hegemony or, Assabiyyat al- Khawass1 -- The Islamic Paradigm of Nations: Toward a Neoclassical Approach -- Islam, Iran, and Western Discourse: Behind the Democratic Veil -- Liberalism and the Contestation of Islamic Sovereignty1 -- Human Rights: A Double Discourse of Power -- Interview -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index N2 - Compares Islamic and Western political formulations, highlighting areas of agreement and disparity, and encouraging an open dialogue between them UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3386228 ER -