This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1962.
Excerpt from Religion and Politics in PakistanThe State, the Community, and the 'ulama' - The Rebirth of Classical Theory - ~the 'ulama' and the Law The Institution of the 'ulama'About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the ...
Excerpt from Religion and Politics in PakistanThe State, the Community, and the 'ulama' - The Rebirth of Classical Theory - ~the 'ulama' and the Law The Institution of the 'ulama'About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the ...
The resurgence of Islamic fundamentalism in the 1980s influenced many in the Islamic world to reject Western norms of liberal rationality and to return, instead, to their own tradition for political and cultural inspiration. This rejection of foreign thought threatens to end the centuries-long dialogue between Islam and the West, a dialogue that has produced a nascent Middle Eastern liberalism, along with many less desirable forms of discourse...
This volume argues that ethnic conflicts are built into the regional system of the Middle East, frequently encouraged as an aspect of international strategy, and cannot be managed without changing the system itself. The authors challenge assumptions of studies of ethnic conflict.
Contents: I. "Crises of Political Development, " Leonard Binder. II. "The Development Syndrome: Differentiation- Equality-Capacity, " James S. Colcman. III. "Identity and the Political Culture, " Lucian W. Pye. IV. "The Legitimacy Crisis, " Lucian W. Pye. V. "Political Participation: Crisis of the Political Process, " Myron Weiner. VI. "Penetration: A Crisis of Governmental Capacity, " Joseph LaPalombara. VII. "Distribution: A Crisis of Resour...
