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Bassam La**
Political Science and International Relations
Middle Eastern Politics
Political Theory
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Introduction: Islam between Culture and Politics — the Scope and Implications
Islam is a world religion, and it also forms the basis of a world civilisation which was once very powerful. Due to its spread across the world Islamic civilisation is composed of a great variety of diverse lo...
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Cultural Patterns and the Perception of Change in Islam. A Religious Model for Reality: the Islamic Worldview
Cultural diversity in Islam contradicts the political notion of Islam as a monolithic unity and of Muslims as one umma. This notion can be found equally — albeit for different motives and with varying degrees of ...
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The Dichotomy of Structural Globalisation and Fragmenting Cultural Self-Assertion: the Case of Islamic Civilisation
The present analysis of the oscillation in Islam between culture and politics is not a narrative of topical events, but is rather ambitious in that it attempts to identify the issues and find ways to gain a be...
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From Religious Belief to Political Commitment: the Fundamentalist Revolt against the Secular Order. Between Cultural Modernity and Neo-Absolutism
The reader is already familiar with my criticism on considering the study of culture as well as its application to Islam to be a kind of monopoly for cultural anthropologists.1 Hitherto, the exception of a small ...
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Institutions of Learning and Education in Islam: between the Cultural Accommodation of Change, Religious Orthodoxy and the Politics of Cultural Islamisation
Throughout Islamic history the conflict between the Enlightenment, that is, recognition of the primacy of reason vis-à-vis the sacred, and religious orthodoxy has revolved around a fight over the control of the i...
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Islam Matters to the West! Islam and Europe, Islam in Europe: Islamic Migration between Cultural Assimilation, Political Integration and Communitarian Ghettoisation
When at the present time it comes to addressing Islam, we often encounter references to the notions of modernity, as well as to postmodernity.1 In this context the perennial question was asked in the headline of ...
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September 11, the Global Cultural Turn and the Return of the Sacred in Islamic Civilisation: between Religious Revival and the New Totalitarianism of Political Islam
No prudent observer or analyst of contemporary history can escape the fact of the return of the sacred in general, and its pertinence to the world of Islam in particular. Islam is not only a religion, but also...
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Religion, Culture and Social Reality: Islam as a Cultural System, and its Diversity
The understanding of religion in the present study is based on a combination of two ways of looking at religion: religion as a source of meaning and as incorporated into reality. I view religion as belief but ...
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Culture and Social Change: Tradition and Innovation in Cultural Analysis
Religion is a cultural system and culture is increasingly becoming a pertinent issue in world politics, but the debate on these issues is quite hazy. We need to ask: What is culture? At the outset we may obser...
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The Politicisation of Religion: Political Islam as a Defensive-Cultural Response to Global Challenges. A Social-Scientific Interpretation
Political religion as it occurs at times imbued with ethnicity, and in some cases (for example, Islam) mixed with universalist claims is the hallmark of our age. However, this phenomenon has precedents. The hi...
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Social Change and the Potential for Flexibility in Islamic Law: the Shari’a between Ethics and Politicisation
In most religions, religious scholars are basically theologians. In contrast, learned men of religion in Islam are sacral jurists/faqihs (in Arabic: fuqaha), not theologians (mutakallimun). In medieval Islam a re...
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Islam and the West in the Age of Conflict among Civilisations: the Alternative of Intercultural Dialogue as a Means of Conflict Resolution
At certain stages in history Islam and Europe had positive records of mutual impact. But they have also been at odds to the extent of waging war against one another, be it jihad or crusades.1 Despite the existing...
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Pan-Arab versus Local Nationalism II: al-Husri’s Critique of Antun Sa’ada and his Syrian Social Nationalist Party (SSNP)
The Egyptian variety of local nationalism provoked al-Husri’s criticism on two grounds. In the first place, its regional limitation contradicted his own Pan-Arab views, and in the second place, it derived from...
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The Origins of Nation Formation and Nationalism in Europe
According to Pollard, ancient history is essentially that of the city state, and medieval history that of the universal world state. He sees modern history as the history of national states whose most ‘promine...
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Pan-Arab versus Local Nationalism I: al-Husri and the Egyptian Nationalists
It has already been shown that Arab nationalism first emerged in Greater Syria, and that it was confined to that part of the Middle East in its early years. It originated among Syro-Lebanese intellectuals, who...
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Pan-Arab Nationalism versus Pan-Islamism: The Role of Islam in al-Husri’s Writings
In the course of a long life (1882–1968) al-Husri was able to ensure that his ideas gained maximum publicity. He published frequently, and also managed to spread his theories in the course of his employment as...
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Pan-Arab Nationalism as Westernised Ideology and Politics of Arab States: Between Ba’thism and Nasserism until the Six-Day War
The overall framework of the emergence of Arab nationalism is the European expansion and the processes of globalisation triggered by this expansive effort at Europeanisation of the world. The globalisation of ...
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The Role of Nationalism and Nation Formation in the Process of Emancipation of the Peoples of the ‘Third World’
The indigenous social structures of ‘Third World’ countries, devastated by colonialism, are now experiencing a comprehensive process of transformation triggered off from outside.1 However the disintegration of th...
