TY - RPRT A1 - Khatib, Hakim T1 - Politics Matter in the Middle East and So Does Religion: Forms of Political Instrumentalisation of Islam T2 - sicherheitspolitik-blog.de N2 - 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... KW - Instrumentalisation KW - Islam KW - Middle East KW - Pakistan KW - Religion KW - Syria KW - Turkey Y1 - 2015 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/39194 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-391942 UR - http://www.sicherheitspolitik-blog.de/2015/05/05/politics-matter-in-the-middle-east-and-so-does-religion-forms-of-political-instrumentalisation-of-islam/ N1 - Dieses Werk bzw. Inhalt steht unter einer Creative Commons Namensnennung-NichtKommerziell-KeineBearbeitung 3.0 Unported Lizenz. Über diese Lizenz hinausgehende Erlaubnisse können Sie unter redaktion@sicherheitspolitik-blog.de erhalten. CY - Frankfurt am Main ER -