1st Edition

Muslims and Communists in Post-Transition States

Edited By Ben Fowkes, Bulent Gokay Copyright 2012
178 Pages
by Routledge

178 Pages
by Routledge

184 Pages
by Routledge

Popular uprisings have taken many different forms in the last hundred or so years since Muslims first began to grapple with modernity and to confront various systems of domination both European and indigenous.The relevance of studies of popular uprising and revolt in the Muslim world has recently been underlined by shattering recent events, particularly in Egypt, Yemen, Tunisia and... Read more

1. An Unholy Alliance against the Common Enemy: A History of Communists' Relations with Muslims  Ben Fowkes and Bülent Gökay  2. The Imperial Reification of the Qur‘an  Vassilis K. Fouskas  3. ‘Enverists’ and ‘Titoists’ – Communism and Islam in Albania and Kosova, 1941–99: From the Partisan Movement of the Second World War to the Kosova Liberation War  Stephen Schwartz  4. Assessing Unholy Alliances in Chechnya: From Communism and Nationalism to Islamism and Salafism  Cerwyn Moore and Paul Tumelty  5. Uneasy Alliances: British Muslims and Socialists since the 1950s  Farzana Shain  6. A Bibliographical Essay on the History of Communism and Communists in the Muslim World  Ben Fowkes

Biography

Ben Fowkes has lectured at a number of universities in the course of his career, including Sheffield University and London Metropolitan University. He is a specialist in studies of Soviet, East European and communist history, and the author of several publications in these areas.

Bülent Gökay is Professor of International Relations at Keele University. He is on the editorial board of a number of journals, including the Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, and the author of many publications in this area, as well as in the fields of Middle Eastern and international politics.