TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tibi,Bassam
TI  - Islamism and Islam
SN  - 9780300159981
AV  - BP 173.5 .T53 2012
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University
KW  - Islam and world politics
KW  - Islamic fundamentalism
KW  - Islamic renewal
KW  - Religions awakening
KW  - Islam
KW  - 21st century
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Contents: Why Islamism is not Islam -- Islamism and the political order -- Islamism and antisemitism -- Islamismand democracy -- Islamism and violence : the new world disorder -- Islamism and law : shariatization as an invention of tradition -- Islamism, purity, and authenticity -- Islamism and totalitarianism -- Civil Islamas an alternative to Islamism
N2  - "Despite the intense media focus on Muslims and their religion since the tragedy of 9/11, few Western scholars or policymakers today have a clear idea of the distinctions between Islam and the politically based fundamentalist movement known as Islamism. In this important and illuminating book, Bassam Tibi, a senior scholar of Islamic politics, provides a corrective to this dangerous gap in our understanding. He explores the true nature of contemporary Islamism and the essential ways in which it differs from the religious faith of Islam. Drawing on research in twenty Islamic countries over three decades, Tibi describes Islamism as a political ideology based on a reinvented version of Islamic law. In separate chapters devoted to the major features of Islamism, he discusses the Islamist vision of state order, the centrality of antisemitism in Islamist ideology, Islamism's incompatibility with democracy, the reinvention of jihadism as terrorism, the invented tradition of shari'a law as constitutional order, and the Islamists' confusion of the concepts of authenticity and cultural purity. Tibi's concluding chapter applies elements of Hannah Arendt's theory to identify Islamism as a totalitarian ideology."--Publisher's description
ER  -