1st Edition
Islamism and the West From "Cultural Attack" to "Missionary Migrant"
By Uriya Shavit
Copyright 2014
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
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Offering a unique analysis of Islamist ideology, Islamism and the West attempts to explain how- and why-mainstream Islamist leaders have, for the past century, developed and canonized theories which depict theWest as engaged in a sophisticated conspiracy to undermine Muslim identity by cultural means, while morallycollapsing and yearning for the spiritual salvation brought by Muslim migrants.... Read more
Introduction 1 Second-Generation Islamism in the Path of Pragmatic Idealism 2 Disco is the New Crusader: Roots and Systemization of the "Cultural Attack" 3 Do Cultures Possess Guns? Contextualizing and Debating the "Cultural Attack" 4 The Decline of the West: Predicting the Collapse of a Godless Civilisation 5 From Nadir to Triumph: Constructing the Muslim Migrant as a Missionary Conclusion
Biography
Uriya Shavit is a senior Lecturer at the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Tel Aviv University.He specializes in the study of modern Islamic law and politics and is author of numerous articles and six booksin these fields, including; The New Imagined Community: Global Media and the Construction of National and Muslim Identities of Migrants (2009).
