The Islamic Movement in Egypt

Autor: Louis J. Cantori
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 1996
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Zdroj: American Journal of Islam and Society, Vol 13, Iss 4 (1996)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2690-3733
2690-3741
DOI: 10.35632/ajis.v13i4.2288
Popis: The author of this book is a member of the Egyptian diplomatic service with a Ph.D. from the University of Geneva. This study employs carefully defined concepts, the most important one being Islamism as the politicization of Islamic symbols. In addition, however, he defines the boundary between the internal world of perceptions and the external world that is being perceived as the ummah. In so doing, the author logically raises the question of the universalism of Islam and the particularism of Egyptian nationalist foreign policy perceptions. It is this carefulness that allows the author to tell the story of Islamic ideological perceptions objectively and without raising controversies of theological interpretation. The book begins with a historical treatment of the Islamic perception of international relations from the foreign policy of the Prophet Muhammad to the formulations of al-Afghani, 'Abduh, and Ri
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