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Lädt ... Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle Over Islam Is Reshaping the Worldvon Shadi Hamid
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"From the founding of Islam in the seventh century, there had always been a dominant Muslim empire, or "caliphate." But in 1924, the Ottoman Caliphate was formally abolished. Since then, there has been an ongoing struggle to establish a legitimate political order in the Middle East. At the center of that struggle is the vexing problem of religion and its role in political life. In Islamic Exceptionalism, Brookings Institution scholar and acclaimed author Shadi Hamid offers a novel and provocative argument on how Islam is, in fact, "exceptional" in how it relates to politics, with profound implications for how we understand the future of the Middle East. With unprecedented access to Islamist activists and leaders across the region, Hamid argues for a new understanding of how Islam and Islamism shape politics - and how the practice of politics shapes Islam. Despite the hopes of the Arab Spring, ideological and religious polarization has actually worsened. Divides among citizens aren't just about power but are products of fundamental disagreements over the very nature and purpose of the modern nation state. Drawing on hundreds of hours of interviews across the region, Hamid examines different models of reckoning with the problem of religion and state, including the terrifying - and alarmingly successful - example of ISIS. Offering a panoramic and ambitious interpretation of the region's descent into violence, Islamic Exceptionalism is a vital contribution to our understanding of Islam's past and present, and its outsized, exceptional role in modern politics. We don't have to like it; but we have to understand it, because it will continue to be a force that shapes not just the region, but the West as well, in the coming decades"-- Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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"The Chicago statement on biblical inerrancy, published in 1978…" Page 49–50
"That Muslims go well beyond Christian notions of scriptural inerrancy and believe that the Quran is god’s actual speech does not necessarily mean that they believe it should be taken literally." Page 51
"If you come to believe that the world offers nothing but darkness, then modern notions of restraint may sound nice, but they are of little use in a state of war." Page 224
And probably the most meaningful part of the book to me:
George Orwell wrote:
"Hitler has grasp the falsity of the hedonistic attitude to life. Nearly all western thought since the last war, certainly all progressive thought, has assumed tacitly that human beings desire nothing beyond ease security and avoidance of pain… The socialist who finds his children playing with soldiers is usually upset but he is never able to think of a substitute for the tin soldiers; tin pacifist somehow won’t do. Hitler because in his own joyless mind he feels it with exceptional strength, knows that human beings don’t only want comfort, safety, short working hours, hygiene, birth control and, in general, common sense; they also, at least intermittently, want struggle and self-sacrifice, not to mention drums, flag and loyalty parades. However they may be as economic theories, Fascism and Nazism are psychologically far sound than any hedonistic conception of life… Whereas socialism, and even capitalism in a grudging, have said to people “I offer you a good time,“ Hitler has said to them I offer you struggle danger and death,“ and as a result a whole nation flings itself at his feet.”
Page 236 A reference is on page 290. This quotation is also found at: https://bookmarks.reviews/george-orwells-1940-review-of-mein-kampf/ (