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Title Islamic activism : a social movement theory approach / edited by Quintan Wiktorowicz
Published Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 316 pages)
Series Indiana series in Middle East studies
Indiana series in Middle East studies.
Contents Islamic activism and social movement theory / Quintan Wiktorowicz -- From marginalization to massacres : a political process explanation of GIA violence in Algeria / Mohammed M. Hafez -- Violence as contention in the Egyptian Islamic movement / Mohammed M. Hafez and Quintan Wiktorowicz -- Repertoires of contention in contemporary Bahrain / Fred H. Lawson -- Hamas as social movement / Glenn E. Robinson -- The networked world of Islamist social movements / Diane Singerman -- Islamist women in Yemen : informal nodes of activism / Janine A. Clark -- Collective action with and without Islam : mobilizing the bazaar in Iran / Benjamin Smith -- The islah party in Yemen : political opportunities and coalition building in a transitional polity / Jillian Schwedler -- Interests, ideas, and Islamist outreach in Egypt / Carrie Rosefsky Wickham -- Making conversation permissible : Islamism and reform in Saudi Arabia / Gwenn Okruhlik -- Opportunity spaces, identity, and Islamic meaning in Turkey / M. Hakan Yavuz -- Social movement theory and Islamic studies / Charles Kurzman
Summary " ... [Will] have an impact on two important fields of scholarship: social movement theory and the study of Islamic activist movements."--John Voll, Georgetown UniversityThis volume represents the first comprehensive attempt to incorporate the study of Islamic activism into social movement theory. It argues that the dynamics, processes, and organization of Islamic activism can be understood as important elements of contention that transcend the specificity of "Islam" as a system of meaning and identity a
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Social movements -- Arab countries
Social movements -- Middle East
Islam and politics -- Arab countries
Islam and politics -- Middle East
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Islam and politics
Social movements
Soziale Bewegung
Islam
Politische Bewegung
Sociale bewegingen.
Islam.
Activisme.
Arab countries
Middle East
Naher Osten
Form Electronic book
Author Wiktorowicz, Quintan, 1970-
ISBN 0253110769
9780253110763