Politics Matter in the Middle East and So Does Religion: Forms of Political Instrumentalisation of Islam
- Practicing politics within religious frameworks is more likely to increase states‘ fragility. While employing religious references in political discourses could foster positive outcomes such as avoiding dangerous eruptions of violence under authoritarian regimes, it could also increase the space for political and religious elites to instrumentalise religion for their own interests. Such patterns of instrumentalisation are more common in the Middle East; especially the dominant religion in the region is Islam, which enjoys a decentralised mode of function...
Author: | Hakim Khatib |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-391942 |
URL: | http://www.sicherheitspolitik-blog.de/2015/05/05/politics-matter-in-the-middle-east-and-so-does-religion-forms-of-political-instrumentalisation-of-islam/ |
Parent Title (German): | sicherheitspolitik-blog.de |
Place of publication: | Frankfurt am Main |
Document Type: | Report |
Language: | English |
Date of Publication (online): | 2015/05/05 |
Date of first Publication: | 2015/05/05 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2016/01/28 |
Tag: | Instrumentalisation; Islam; Middle East; Pakistan; Religion; Syria; Turkey |
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HeBIS-PPN: | 372460232 |
Institutes: | Gesellschaftswissenschaften / Gesellschaftswissenschaften |
Exzellenzcluster / Exzellenzcluster Die Herausbildung normativer Ordnungen | |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 32 Politikwissenschaft / 320 Politikwissenschaft |
Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
Licence (German): | Creative Commons - Namensnennung-Nicht kommerziell-Keine Bearbeitung 3.0 |