Peter Mandaville, "Islam and Politics" (Routledge, 2020)
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The Role of Islamism in Minority Moslem Countries
Islamism is the idea that the political system and legal foundations of a given state should be based on islam. That doesn't seem likea listic prospect in a country in which the majority of the population is not moslem. In india, conversely, where you have a huge,. just given the size of population, you have an enormous am. There ise still a distinct minority compared to the majority hindoo population. We can also talk about what happens when am, a islams, movements and projects transplant selves through processes of post colonial migration from the middle east and south asia to europe and indeed even north america.
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