What if Islam never existed? To some, it's a comforting thought: no clash of civilizations, no terrorists, and no holy wars. But what if that weren't the case? Fuller guides us along a journey through history, geopolitics, & religion to explore whether Islam is indeed the cause of some of today's most important international crises.
Graham E. Fuller Livres
Graham Fuller est un auteur et analyste politique dont le travail aborde fréquemment des questions géopolitiques complexes. Sa compréhension approfondie des relations internationales, acquise grâce à ses expériences antérieures au sein d'agences de renseignement et d'entreprises de recherche, éclaire ses écrits. Fuller s'efforce d'éclairer et d'analyser les dynamiques mondiales clés et leurs ramifications. Ses textes offrent des perspectives perspicaces aux lecteurs intéressés par la politique et les affaires mondiales.
The Future of Political Islam
- 256pages
- 9 heures de lecture
Graham E. Fuller brings a lifetime of experience in the Muslim world to shed light on how common, even universal, political behavior takes on a distinctively Islamic guise in the Muslim world. By examining the social, economic and political context, he explains that the struggle between the fundamentalists and liberals will determine the future of political Islam. This sweeping survey of trends in the Muslim world, from Morocco to the Philippines, explores the diversity of Islamic political activity and makes clear that Islamic political movements represent a broad spectrum of outlook and behavior. Whether traditional or liberal, these movements have become an important vehicle for the concerns, aspirations and grievances of vast numbers of Muslims worldwide and are a natural outgrowth of Muslim history. Fuller contends that while political Islam is the dominant intellectual current, a focus on radicalism and extremism blinds us from another trend: liberal political Islam. The issues are not what is Islam, but what Muslims want, and not whether Islam will play a central role in politics, but which Islam. As Islam has become the vocabulary for political and social expression, it has come to serve various agendas.
An exploration of Ken Loach's cinema of social conscience. One of Britain's most distinguished and respected filmmakers, he makes tough, uncompromising films about a beleaguered working class -- but with poetry and humor.Honored by every major British and European award for his films of the nineties (Ladybird, Ladybird; Land and Freedom; Raining Stones; Riff-Raff; The Flickering Flame and Carla's Song), Loach initially changed the face of British politics in the 1960's with a devastating television series on the homeless. Most recently he has stirred furious debate among the Spanish with Land and Freedom, his 1995 film on the Spanish Civil War.