Recent Books on International Relations - Islam beyond violence
In: Foreign affairs, Band 77, Heft 5, S. 145-169
ISSN: 0015-7120
In: Foreign affairs, Band 77, Heft 5, S. 145-169
ISSN: 0015-7120
In order to analyse the impact of these ideological disagreements between Islam and the West on international political behaviour and international relations, this paper highlights the different visions of Western societies' understanding of the meaning of divinity and prophecy compared with that of Muslim societies. Accordingly, the paper focuses on exploring multiple opinions of Western intellectual elites in regards to this issue in addition to the approach by the media and common traditions in the West. However, the paper assumes that, despite the existence of a misconception in Western societies toward the meaning of prophecy, there are positive aspects in that some intellectual elites have dealt with prophecy respectfully, particularly in terms of the Prophet Muhammad, PBUH. Therefore, the paper wishes to illustrate some of these elites, especially the poets and novelists, scientists and philosophers. Other elites, however, in addition to the popular and traditional dominant perception, dealt with prophecy with a kind of disdain, contempt and ridicule. The paper uses comparison methodology to discuss this issue in our contemporary reality, particularly between Islam and the West; Muslim societies and Western societies. In this paper I seek to examine the possibility of finding a means of communication between both sides through addressing the West equitably and rationally to relieve and deal with the anger in the Muslim world and to deepen the mutual understanding and dialogue between the two cultures and civilisations. Unquestionably, this will have a positive impact on the relationship between Muslim and Western societies and on international relations.
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In: Journal of international relations and development, Band 16, Heft 4, S. 455-482
ISSN: 1581-1980
Eurocentric approaches to political Islam tend to deploy an internalist methodology that theoretically obscures the generative and constitutive role of international relations. This article addresses this problem through a critical application of Leon Trotsky's idea of 'uneven and combined development' to Ayatollah Khomeini's invention of the concept of 'Islamic government'. It argues that this concept was international in its socio-political stimulus and intellectual content, and, crucially, reflected, influenced, and mobilised an emergent liminal sociality that combined Western and Islamic socio-cultural forms. This heterogeneous character of Iran's experience of modernity is, the article argues, theoretically inaccessible to Eurocentric approaches' homogeneous and unilinear conceptions of history, which, as a result, generate exceptionalist modes of explanations. Adapted from the source document.
In: Cambridge review of international affairs, Band 20, Heft 3, S. 417-433
ISSN: 1474-449X
In: Cambridge review of international affairs, Band 20, Heft 3, S. 417-434
ISSN: 0955-7571
In: Foreign affairs, Band 86, Heft 1, S. 155-179
ISSN: 0015-7120
In: Foreign affairs, Band 85, Heft 5, S. 158
ISSN: 0015-7120
In: Alternatives: Turkish Journal of International Relations, Band 5, Heft 4, S. 41-56
In: Journal of international relations and development: JIRD, official journal of the Central and East European International Studies Association, Band 16, Heft 4, S. [455]-482
ISSN: 1408-6980
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In: Études internationales, Band 49, Heft 1, S. 177
ISSN: 1703-7891
In: Milletlerarası münasebetler türk yıllığı: The Turkish yearbook of international relations, S. 073-098
In: Journal of international relations and development, Band 16, Heft 4, S. 455-482
ISSN: 1581-1980