General Information

Uniform Title

Peur--modernité.

Author/Creator

Mernissi, Fatima.

Language

English.

Published

Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., [1992]

Physical Description

195 p. ; 24 cm.

Contents/Summary

Summary

Is Islam compatible with democracy? Must fundamentalism win out in the Middle East, or will democracy ever be possible? In her groundbreaking new book, Moroccan sociologist Fatima Mernissi explores the ways in which people on dramatically opposing sides - feminists and defenders of democracy versus violent fundamentalists - must use the same sacred texts to prove different views. Islam and Democracy serves as a guide to the players moving the pieces on the rather grim Muslim chessboard, to illuminate what seems to be a battle from another age - a battle the Gulf War revealed as having a very modern technological component. It raises provocative questions about the possibilities for democracy and human rights in the Islamic world, and it is essential reading for anyone interested in the politics of the Middle East.

Subjects

Subject

Islam > 20th century.

Civilization, Arab > 20th century.

Democracy > Religious aspects > Islam.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

Fatima Mernissi ; translated by Mary Jo Lakeland.

Content

Introduction. The Gulf War: fear and its boundaries -- Part I. A mutilated modernity. 1. Fear of the foreign West -- 2. Fear of the imam -- 3. Fear of democracy -- 4. The United Nations Charter -- Part II. Sacred concepts and profane anxieties. 6. Fear of freedom of thought -- 7. Fear of individualism -- 8. Fear of the past -- 9. Fear of the present -- 10. Women's song: destination freedom -- Conclusion. The Simorgh is us!

ISBN

0201608839

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	General collection	909/.0974927 MER		OSA Repository	Donation of the Department of Political Science, CEU

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