Islamic Exceptionalism by Shadi Hamid
Hamid argues for a new understanding of how Islam and Islamism shape politics by examining different models of reckoning with the problem of religion and state, including the terrifying - and alarmingly successful - example of ISIS. With unprecedented access to Islamist activists and leaders across the region, Hamid offers a panoramic and ambitious interpretation of the region's descent into violence. Islamic Exceptionalism is a vital contribution to our understanding of Islam's past and present, and its out sized role in modern politics. We don't have to like it, but we have to understand it - because Islam, as a religion and as an idea, will continue to be a force that shapes not just the region, but the West as well in the decades to come.
Shadi Hamid is a senior fellow in the Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World at the Brookings Institution and a contributing writer for The Atlantic. He is also the author of Temptations of Power: Islamists and Illiberal Democracy in a New Middle East. Hamid lives in Washington, D.C.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781250135131 |
| ISBN 10 | 1250135133 |
| Title | Islamic Exceptionalism |
| Author | Shadi Hamid |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | St Martin's Press |
| Year published | 2017-06-06 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
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