The Failure of Political IslamOlivier Roy demonstrates that the Islamic Fundamentalism of today is still the Third Worldism of the 1960s: populist politics and mixed economies of laissez-faire for the rich and subsidies for the poor. In Roy's striking formulation, those marching today beneath Islam's green banners are the same as the "reds" of yesterday, with similarly dim prospects of success. Richly informed, powerfully argued, and clearly written, this is a book that no one trying to understand Islam can afford to overlook. |
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User Review - Not Available - Book VerdictIn this work, Roy (Islam and Resistance in Afghanistan, Cambridge Univ. Pr., 1986) analyzes the types of people who are attracted to Islamist (the author's word) movements and the ideologies and goals ... Read full review
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Concepts of Islamism | 35 |
The Sociology of Islamism | 49 |
The Impasses of Islamist Ideology | 60 |
From the Muslim Brotherhood | 75 |
The Islamist New Intellectuals | 89 |
States and Networks | 107 |
Between Illusions and Rhetoric | 132 |
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| Title | The Failure of Political Islam |
| Author | Olivier Roy |
| Translated by | Carol Volk |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Harvard University Press, 1994 |
| ISBN | 0674291417, 9780674291416 |
| Length | 238 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Middle East / General Political Science / History & Theory Religion / Islam / General |
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