Globalized Islam: The Search for a New Ummah (CERI Series in Comparative Politics and International Studies) (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of Globalized Islam: The Search for a New Ummah (CERI Series in Comparative Politics and International Studies) Thursday, August 13 2009.

• A schism has emerged between mainstream Islamist movements in the Muslim world (e.g. Hamas of Palestine and Hezbullah of Lebanon) and the uprooted militants who strive to establish an imaginary ummah, or Muslim community, not embedded in any particular society or territory. Roy provides a detailed comparison of these transnational movements, whether peaceful, like Tabligh Jamaat and the Islamic brotherhoods, or violent, like Al Qaeda. Neofundamentalism, he argues, is both a product and an agent of globalization.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Globalized Islam: The Search for a New Ummah (CERI Series in Comparative Politics and International Studies) Monday, July 27 2009.

• Added a contributor: Olivier Roy: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Globalized Islam: The Search for a New Ummah (CERI Series in Comparative Politics and International Studies) Thursday, July 16 2009.

• This book is the sequel to my Failure of Political Islam (first published in French in 1992 and in English in 1994), in which I argued that the conceptual framework of Islamist parties was unable to provide an effective blueprint for an Islamic state.