Political Islam Observed

by Frédéric Volpi

Book Overview

This book offers a framework for understanding the interaction between the academic disciplines "observing" contemporary political Islam and the individuals and communities being "observed" practicing it. Volpi investigates how different disciplinary approaches in the social sciences explain and understand their "Islamic" subject matter, revealing how political Islam is a phenomenon that each academic discipline analyses using its own dominant...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199395055
• ISBN13: 9780199395057
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"