Islam: State and Society

Cemal Karakas Turkey : Islam and Laicism Between the Interests of State , Politics , and Society

Children of Islam: concepts of childhood in medieval Muslim society

AVNER GIL'ADI, Children of Islam: concepts of childhood in medieval Muslim society, St Antony's/Macmillan Series, Basingstoke and Oxford, Macmillan in association with St Antony's College, 1992, pp. xii, 176, £40.00 (0-333-55598-8). This volume is a collection of eight studies by the author on various aspects of the history of childhood in medieval Islamic society. A useful introduction surveys...

Liberal theory and Islam: (re)imagining the interaction of religion, law, state and society in Muslim contexts

Within the global phenomenon of the (re)emergence of religion into issues of public debate, one of the most salient issues confronting contemporary Muslim societies is how to relate the legal and political heritage that developed in pre-modern Islamic polities to the political order of the modern states in which Muslims now live. This study seeks to develop a framework for addressing this issue...

TheMaking of Militants: The State and Islam in Central Asia

I n Central Asia, as in other regions of the world with large Muslim populations, opposition groups are increasingly turning to the ideas of militant Islam in their efforts to challenge authoritarian rule. Activists fromKokand to Kabul have learned that political Islam provides an unusually potent language of opposition. In Central Asia, a wide array of opposition movements—the Islamic Movement...

strong society. weak state sociological explanation of state-society relationship in qajar iran

with this in mind that the behaviour and interactions of social actors and also the kind of power imagine at the level of social life directly impact political treatments of state and the ways in which political life is organized, then one can admit that understanding the nature and performance of state in every society is closely interconnected to understanding the structures of the society in...