Islam in the Political Process

by James Piscatori

Book Overview

The Iranian revolution greatly aroused outsiders' curiosity and misunderstanding of Islam. The relatively easy overthrow of the Shah and the pronouncements of the new Iranian regime brought to the forefront an image of 'militant Islam' which has survived in one form or another since the Crusades. At the time, there was the assumption in the West that Islam was inevitably revolutionary, militant, or at least anti-Western and that the Iranian example...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521274346
• ISBN13: 9780521274340
• Release Date: March 1983
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"