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By Hamid Enayat,Roy Mottahedeh

The revival and gear of spiritual emotions between Muslims because the Iranian revolution provides a classy and infrequently difficult photograph of the politics of the Islamic international within the glossy period. What are the tips that have encouraged the course of those developments? during this booklet, which considering the fact that its unique book has demonstrated itself as a seminal paintings, Hamid Enayat offers a solution by way of describing and examining a number of the significant Islamic political rules. He additionally examines the idea that of the Islamic nation, and the Muslim reaction to the problem of alien and sleek ideologies reminiscent of nationalism, democracy and socialism. This vintage paintings is still quintessential for an figuring out of the present politics of the Muslim world.

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