Article: Turkey, Islamists and Democracy: Transition and Globalization in a Muslim State.(Brief article)(Book review)

Article: Traditional institutions as tools of political ...
Journal of Asian and African Studies;  June 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... President of the country, for example, declared that he was proud to be a Muslim and that his nation was the second biggest Muslim state in the world (Bangladesh Observer, 1972a). He not only frequently made use of Islamic expressions in his speech, but ...

Article: TRANSITION AND GLOBALIZATION IN A MUSLIM STATE
Middle East;  January 1, 2007 ;     404 words ... ... TRANSITION AND GLOBALIZATION IN A MUSLIM STATE By Yildiz Atasoy published ... examines the development of political Islam in Turkey within the context ... author demonstrates how political Islam interacts with the global ... and instead argues that political Islam is ...

Article: Militant Islam: Forming the right response
The Star (Jordan, Middle East);  December 2, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... government and religious groups seeking to impose a Muslim state. Political Islam forced itself on the Middle Eastern scene with ... a relative newcomer and it appears only when political Islam has been purged and stamped out. This is one ...

Article: Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam
The Middle East Journal;  January 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ...Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam, by Gilles Kepel. Cambridge, MA ... states which make up the world of "Political Islam." The book is truly a detailed account of the trail of political Islam. Jihad is divided into two parts ...

Article: Political Islam: Revolution. Radicalism, or Reform?
Journal of Third World Studies;  April 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ...Esposito, John L. (ed.). Political Islam: Revolution. Radicalism, or Reform ... Lynne Rienner, 1997. 281 pp. Political Islam is a word that was coined only relatively ... take a close interest in it. Since political Islam blended both religion and politics ...

Article: Political Islam.
The Journal of the American Oriental Society;  April 1, 1994 ;     700+ words ... ... perspective to the movement known as political Islam (al-islam al-siyusi), a term ... general groupings. The first, "political Islam viewed across time," consists of ... Political Concepts of Islam," and "Political Islam: The Origins," by Ira Lapidus and ...

Article: The Challenge of Fundamentalism: Political Islam ...
American Political Science Review;  March 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ...The Challenge of Fundamentalism: Political Islam and the New World Disorder. By Bassam ... on the origins and development of political Islam, more popularly referred to as Islamic ... Islamic ideology, the social base of political Islam, the dynamics of its politics, and ...