Islam and Politics and The Search for Arab Democracy: Discourses and Counter-Discourses

In: Canadian journal of political science: CJPS = Revue canadienne de science politique, Band 38, Heft 4, S. 1083-1086

Abstract

Islam and Politics, Beverly Milton-Edwards, Cambridge: Polity
Press, 2004, pp. vii, 217.The Search for Arab Democracy: Discourses and
Counter-Discourses, Larbi Sadiki, New York: Columbia University
Press, 2004, pp. vii, 409These two books approach Middle Eastern Arab and Islamic politics from
a post-modern perspective informed by new European and American
scholarship on democracy and gender. Both authors tackle a range of issues
that should have been treated as discrete topics. Beverly Milton-Edwards
and Larbi Sadiki, the two authors, are trying to define Islam and politics
not only in terms of the world after 9/11, but also in terms of the
recurring and yet-to-be-solved issue of the role of Islam in the modern
world and its relationship to politics.