Volume 30, Number 11 · June 30, 1983
The Revolt of Islam
By Bernard Lewis
L'Islam et l'état dans le monde d'aujourd'hui
edited by Olivier Carré
Presses Universitaries de France (Paris), 270 pp., F95
Faith and Power: The Politics of Islam
by Edward Mortimer
Random House, 432 pp., $19.95
Islam and Modernity: Transformation of an Intellectual Tradition
by Fazlur Rahman
University of Chicago Press, 172 pp., $15.00
Lectures du Coran
by Mohammed Arkoun
Maisonneuve and Larose (Paris), 175 pp., F82
Modern Islamic Political Thought
by Hamid Enayat
University of Texas Press, 220 pp., $8.95 (paper)
Until the latter part of 1978 the discussion of Islam as a factor in politics was subject to certain taboos in the Western world. There was no such taboo in the Middle East and generally in the Muslim world, where the rise of nationalism had touched off a continuing debate on the relationship between patriotic or national and religious loyalties, and on the role of Islam in ideology, allegiance, and government.
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