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"The migration and settlement of large numbers of Muslims in Western Europe in recent decades has posed a challenge to European secularism. As European Muslims began to turn to the state for public recognition of their religious rights, these residents exposed a conflict between Europe's supposedly secular political culture and state policies that provided myriad benefits to religious groups. This article examines how Muslims highlighted tensions inherent in European church-state practices and explores how European states might best ensure the successful incorporation of Muslims into their respective societies." (author's abstract)

Public schooling systems are an essential feature of modern states. These systems often developed at the expense of religious schools, which undertook the bulk of education historically and still cater to large student populations worldwide. This paper examines how Indonesia's longstanding Islamic school system responded to the construction of 61,000 public elementary schools in the mid-1970s. The policy was designed in part to foster nation building and to curb religious influence in society. We are the first to study the market response to these ideological objectives. Using novel data on Islamic school construction and curriculum, we identify both short-run effects on exposed cohorts as well as dynamic, long-run effects on education markets. While primary enrollment shifted towards state schools, religious education increased on net as Islamic secondary schools absorbed the increased demand for continued education. The Islamic sector not only entered new markets to compete with the state but also increased religious curriculum at newly created schools. Our results suggest that the Islamic sector response increased religiosity at the expense of a secular national identity. Overall, this ideological competition in education undermined the nation-building impacts of mass schooling.

Public schooling systems are an essential feature of modern states. These systems often developed at the expense of religious schools, which undertook the bulk of education historically and still cater to large student populations worldwide. This paper examines how Indonesia's longstanding Islamic school system responded to the construction of 61,000 public elementary schools in the mid-1970s. The policy was designed in part to foster nation building and to curb religious influence in society. We are the first to study the market response to these ideological objectives. Using novel data on Islamic school construction and curriculum, we identify both short-run effects on exposed cohorts as well as dynamic, long-run effects on education markets. While primary enrollment shifted towards state schools, religious education increased on net as Islamic secondary schools absorbed the increased demand for continued education. The Islamic sector not only entered new markets to compete with the state but also increased religious curriculum at newly created schools. Our results suggest that the Islamic sector response increased religiosity at the expense of a secular national identity. Overall, this ideological competition in education undermined the nation-building impacts of mass schooling.

Al afrontar el tema de la democratización en los países musulmanes, el pluralismo político en el "mundo islámico" se revela como una preocupación característica. Aunque algunos académicos sostienen que existen factores inherentes en el Islam que imposibilitan la democracia, otros mantienen que nada en el Islam implica que los países musulmanes deban carecer de credenciales democráticas. Este ensayo defiende que los países musulmanes poseen, desde antaño, pocas características estructurales conducentes a la democratización y a la democracia. Las dos décadas de la "tercera ola de la democracia", de mediados de los 70 a mediados de los 90, no alteraron sustancialmente esta situación, aunque se produjeron algunas señales de liberalización política y democratización en varios países musulmanes, incluyendo a Turquía, Indonesia, Jordania y Kuwait. A fin de explicar la heterogénea imagen que, en términos de pluralismo y democracia, ofrece el mundo musulmán, el presente artículo señala a la importancia de una combinación de factores, tanto internos como externos, (incluyendo la influencia de la política exterior de EE.UU. y de al-Qaeda), sobre las sociedades musulmanas mediante el estudio del caso de las actividades de al-Qaeda en Kenia. ; The issue of political pluralism in the 'Islamic world' is a defining concern when addressing the wider issue of democracy among Muslim countries. While some scholars contend that there are inherent factors within Islam that deny the possibility of democracy, others contend that there is nothing within Islam that means that Muslim countries will 'inevitably' have a lack of democratic credentials. The article argues that Muslim countries have few structural characteristics conducive to both democratisation and democracy and that things have been that way for a long time. This situation did not fundamentally change during the two decades of the 'third wave of democracy', from the mid- 1970s to mid-1990s, although during this time there were some signs of political liberalisation and democratisation in some Muslim countries, including Turkey, Indonesia, Jordan and Kuwait. To explain the varying picture regarding pluralism and democracy in the Muslim world, the article points to a the importance of a combination of both internal and external factors, including the influence of US foreign policy and of al-Qaeda on Muslim societies, with a case study of al-Qaeda's activities in Kenya.

URL del artículo en la web de la Revista: https://www.upo.es/revistas/index.php/ripp/article/view/1538 ; Al afrontar el tema de la democratización en los países musulmanes, el pluralismo político en el "mundo islámico" se revela como una preocupación característica. Aunque algunos académicos sostienen que existen factores inherentes en el Islam que imposibilitan la democracia, otros mantienen que nada en el Islam implica que los países musulmanes deban carecer de credenciales democráticas. Este ensayo defiende que los países musulmanes poseen, desde antaño, pocas características estructurales conducentes a la democratización y a la democracia. Las dos décadas de la "tercera ola de la democracia", de mediados de los 70 a mediados de los 90, no alteraron sustancialmente esta situación, aunque se produjeron algunas señales de liberalización política y democratización en varios países musulmanes, incluyendo a Turquía, Indonesia, Jordania y Kuwait. A fin de explicar la heterogénea imagen que, en términos de pluralismo y democracia, ofrece el mundo musulmán, el presente artículo señala a la importancia de una combinación de factores, tanto internos como externos, (incluyendo la influencia de la política exterior de EE.UU. y de al-Qaeda), sobre las sociedades musulmanas mediante el estudio del caso de las actividades de al-Qaeda en Kenia. ; The issue of political pluralism in the "Islamic world" is a defining concern when addressing the wider issue of democracy among Muslim countries. While some scholars contend that there are inherent factors within Islam that deny the possibility of democracy, others contend that there is nothing within Islam that means that Muslim countries will "inevitably" have a lack of democratic credentials. The article argues that Muslim countries have few structural characteristics conducive to both democratisation and democracy and that things have been that way for a long time. This situation did not fundamentally change during the two decades of the "third wave of democracy", from the mid- 1970s to mid-1990s, although during this time there were some signs of political liberalisation and democratisation in some Muslim countries, including Turkey, Indonesia, Jordan and Kuwait. To explain the varying picture regarding pluralism and democracy in the Muslim world, the article points to a the importance of a combination of both internal and external factors, including the influence of US foreign policy and of al-Qaeda on Muslim societies, with a case study of al-Qaeda's activities in Kenya. ; Universidad Pablo de Olavide

Der vorliegende Sammelband gibt einen Überblick über die verschiedenen Ansichten in bezug auf "Frau im Islam". Die Mitarbeiter sind hauptsächlich arabische Frauen, die entweder als Muslimin erzogen wurden oder enge Kenntnis des Islams haben. Behandelt werden Themen wie: Feminismus, das islamische Bild von der Frau, Rechtsfragen, Patriarchat, Sozialer Wandel und Mystik. (DÜI-Sdt)