Peter Mandaville, "Islam and Politics" (Routledge, 2020)
New Books in Middle Eastern Studies
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The Islamists in the Middle East and Africa
Most of the failed states in the region, which are a lot of states, were brought down, at least in part, if not totally, by the involvement, interference or violence of the islamists. I'm thinking of lebanon and well, turkey, which was once a highly secular state not so many decades go,. Now has more academics and journal journalists in jail than anywhere else in the world. So, i believe i understand what you pointed out, which is there are islamist parties that function inside of, as part of a state that is fully or somewhat democratic - right? They behave according to the sort of norms of democratic politics. And then when they lose,
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