Understanding Political Islam

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Understanding Political Islam is written by François Burgat and published by Manchester University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1526143461 (ISBN 10) and 9781526143464 (ISBN 13).

Understanding Political Islam retraces the human and intellectual development that led François Burgat to a very firm conviction: that the roots of the tensions that afflict the Western world’s relationship with the Muslim world are political rather than ideological. In his compelling account of the interactions between personal life-history and professional research trajectories, Burgat examines how the rise of political Islam has been expressed: first in the Arab world, then in its interactions with European and Western societies. An essential continuation of his work on Islamism, Burgat’s unique field research and ‘political trespassing’ marks an overdue challenge to the academic mainstream.