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The prospect of a united Muslim world has long inspired both dreams and fears. Many Muslims regard the pan-Islamic community, the umma, as the embodiment of the spiritual kinship of the faith, but it has also often been assumed to be inherently antagonistic to adherents of other faiths. Questions over relations with the Other are mirrored by debates over what constitutes the acceptable contours of Islamic doctrine itself. Indeed, the umma has had variant and contested meanings over time, and divergent perspectives on its inclusiveness or exclusiveness and whether it must have concrete or institutional form have become acute. The rise of jihadist movements has especially brought these related issues to the fore, with the targeting of external and internal 'enemies' presented as part of a purifying and defensive mission to rescue the umma from its current degradation. The anthem of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), 'My Umma, Dawn Has Appeared', extols Muslims to give up this life in order to revive the umma and assure victory for Islam. The idea of the umma, so central and yet so elusive, has taken on a talismanic quality

For generations Islamic and Western intellectuals and policymakers have debated Islam's compatibility with democratic government, usually with few solid conclusions. But where--Brandon Kendhammer asks in this book--have the voices of ordinary, working-class Muslims been in this conversation? Doesn't the fate of democracy rest in their hands? Visiting with community members in northern Nigeria, he tells the complex story of the stunning return of democracy to a country that has also embraced Shariah law and endured the radical religious terrorism of Boko Haram. Kendhammer argues that despite Nigeria's struggles with jihadist insurgency, its recent history is really one of tenuous and fragile reconciliation between mass democratic aspirations and concerted popular efforts to preserve Islamic values in government and law. Combining an innovative analysis of Nigeria's Islamic and political history with visits to the living rooms of working families, he sketches how this reconciliation has been constructed in the conversations, debates, and everyday experiences of Nigerian Muslims. In doing so, he uncovers valuable new lessons--ones rooted in the real politics of ordinary life--for how democracy might work alongside the legal recognition of Islamic values, a question that extends far beyond Nigeria and into the Muslim world at large.

Introduction: Reassessing the "Islamic Revival" in Central Asia / Pauline Jones -- The social significance of Islam in post-Soviet Central Asia: the case of Kyrgyzstan / Rouslan Jalil -- Beyond piety: self-related Muslims in Uzbekistan / Svetlana Peshkova -- Radical Islam from below: The Mujaddidiya and Hizb-ut-Tahrir in the Ferghana Valley / Vera Exnerova -- Engineering Islam: Uzbek state policies of control / David Abramson and Noah Tucker -- Subversives and saints: Sufism and the state in Central Asia / Emily O'Dell -- Unregistered: gray spaces in the Soviet regulation of Islam / Eren Murat Tasar -- The ascendance of orthodoxy: nation building and religious pluralism in Central Asia / Noor O'Neill Borbieva -- Islam, religious elites, and the state in post-Civil War Tajikistan / Tim Epkenhans -- When religion resorts to violence explaining variation in religious-based mobilization in Kyrgyzstan / Alisher Khamidov -- The localization of the Transnational Tablighi Jama'at Network in Kyrgyzstan / Mukaram Toktogulova -- Transnational Islamic banks and local markets in Central Asia / Aisalkyn Botoeva -- Studying Islam abroad: pious enterprises and educational aspirations of young Tajik Muslims / Manja Stephan-Emmrich -- Central Asia as part of the Islamic core / Pauline Jones

Este texto trata las formas que toma la relación entre la política y la religión en Marruecos a través de las prácticas políticas del poder dominante representado por la monarquía frente a las fuerzas del Islam político que compiten en adquirir la legitimidad de la representación política del Islam en el espacio público. En este artículo se destaca los tipos de las relaciones políticas que se establecen entre la monarquía y el Islam político. Esta relación está sujeta a intereses estratégicos del poder oficial (la monarquía) y a las aspiraciones del Islam político en convertirse en actor legítimo en el juego político desde la religión ; This article deals with the forms taken by the relationship between politics and religion in Morocco through the political practices of the dominant power represented by the monarchy against the forces of political Islam. These forces compete in acquiring the legitimacy of the political representation of Islam in the public space. This article highlights the types of political relations that are established between the monarchy and political Islam. This relationship is subject to strategic interests of the official power (the monarchy) and to the aspirations of political Islam to become a legitimate actor in political play from religion

Olivier Roy, The Failure of Political Islam.Sami Zubaida, Islam, The People and The State: Essays on Political Ideas and Movements in the Middle East.Akbar S. Ahmed and Hastings (eds.), Islam, Globalization and Postmodernity.

Islam and politics in the Middle East -- Modernization and Islam in the Ottoman Empire -- The Caliphate question: historical and discursive context -- Secularization of politics and discourse in the Caliphal center (1908-1916) -- World War I, European colonialism and the Caliphate's periphery (1914-1920) -- Abolition of the Caliphate: religious justification of a secular reform (1919-1924) -- Islam and modernity: confrontation or accommodation?