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Controlled Democratisation: Democracy and Islam in Jordan
Glossary Ᾱya = Qur’anic verse; plural: āyāt Ba‛th = Revival; renewal; renaissance Bay‛a = Endorsement; mandate; pledge of allegiance Fatwa = Reasoned opinion or... -
Controlled Democratisation: Democracy and Islam in Jordan
This chapter outlines various democratic theories to outline the debates about the definitions of democracy and to identify the theories that inform this book. ‘A theory,’ as... -
Controlled Democratisation: Democracy and Islam in Jordan
This chapter focuses on the claims of incompatibility between democracy and Islam. The religious justifications of the claims made by Muslims are examined. It is of particular... -
Controlled Democratisation: Democracy and Islam in Jordan
Having discussed the claims of incompatibility made by Muslims, I shall discuss Esposito and Voll’s arguments concerning Islamic democracy, whose elements, they suggest, include... -
Controlled Democratisation: Democracy and Islam in Jordan
In this chapter, I continue the discussion of the incompatibility of Islam, Islamism and democracy. In an attempt to be less sweeping in making the claim that Islam is... -
Controlled Democratisation: Democracy and Islam in Jordan
Jordan: History and Political System
This chapter consists of five parts. One will focus briefly on the modern history of Jordan. Another focuses on the political system in Jordan, particularly its branches of... -
Controlled Democratisation: Democracy and Islam in Jordan
This chapter has three parts. The first provides an overview of the MB and its founder Hassan al-Banna. The second part focuses on Jordan’s MB since its creation in 1945. The... -
Controlled Democratisation: Democracy and Islam in Jordan
The conclusion of this book is that there is no theoretical incompatibility between democracy and Islam/ism. During the period of 1990-2010, there have been frequent... -
Controlled Democratisation: Democracy and Islam in Jordan
The first edition of this book was published in 2018, six years after submitting my PhD thesis in which I commented in an epilogue on whether the waves of protests justify... -
Controlled Democratisation: Democracy and Islam in Jordan
Abd al-Kathem, A. 1997. Al-Sīra al-Tārīkhiyya li Jama‛at al-Ikhwān al-Muslimīn [A Historical Account of the Muslim Brothers Society. In: Hourani, H. et al. Al-Harakāt wa... -
Translation Studies
Packaging Translated Arabic Novels
This is a chapter from an abandoned research project that I started in 2004. Context and Rationale My research seeks to examine claims made in relation to Arabic... -
The Failure to Notice
The policy of containing the Soviet Union and reducing its influence throughout the world colored the thinking of the U.S. foreign policymakers. This policy did not only produce... -
Had everything worked according to plan, US foreign policy toward the Middle East would have produced “The Geneva Accords”[1] rather than the Camp David Accords; and instead of...
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The Camp David Accords-Cold War
It was suggested in my previous essay that the Camp David Accords were not the original goal of the American foreign policy toward the Middle East during President Carter’s... -
The Imbalance of Power
Henry Kissinger writes more than 800 pages to argue that an international system based on balance of power is a better system for conducting foreign policy and serving national... -
This essay would examine the American assumptions about the future of the world after the end of the Second World War, and explain why the Soviet war aims appeared to have...
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