Peter Mandaville, "Islam and Politics" (Routledge, 2020)
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The History of Islam and Politics
Islam and politics covers a very wide span of history and geography, but for this conversation, let's focus on modern times and mostly the middle east. At the end of world war one, we saw the dissolution of the ottoman empire, which had ruled and controlled most of what we think of to day as the modern Middle East. The various states that emerged out of that break up then pursued their own courses of political independence. Many of these early governments focused on the challenge of modernization and development. It's that process of modern state creation, m and society's reaction to it, that was the crucible in which the thing we call political islam formeda ke a k soto
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