What Is Moderate Islam?
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- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781498537421
- 297.09051
- BP161.3.W438 2017
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Smoking out Islamists via Extreme Vetting -- Chapter Two: Islamist Extremism -- Chapter Three: Wither Moderate Islam -- Chapter Four: Is There a Non-Radical Islam? -- Chapter Five: An Islam That Rejects Islamists -- Chapter Six: The Debate about Radical versus Non-Radical Islam -- Chapter Seven: Moderate Islam Is an Illusion-at Least for Now -- Chapter Eight: Being Pakhtun -- Chapter Nine: Balochistan to the Road of Independence -- Chapter Ten: South Asian Muslim Attitudes toward Jews, Israel and Zionism -- Chapter Eleven: The Myth of Bangladesh as a Moderate Muslim Nation -- References -- Index -- About the Contributors.
This wide-ranging collection examines the relationship among Islam, civil society, and the state. The contributors--including both Muslims and non-Muslims--investigate how radical Islamists can be distinguished from moderate Muslims, analyze the potential for moderate Islamic governance, and challenge monolithic conceptions of Islam.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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