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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Religious (Islamic) Thought, Nationalism, and the Politics of Caliphate
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Official Nationalism and Islamic Identity
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Kurdish Nationalism and Exclusionary Islams
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“In contrast to theories of nationalism that downplay the significance of religion in the emergence of nationalist movements, Kamal argues that religion and nationalism have been closely intertwined in ways that had been obscured by the discourse of elites at the center of power, whose perspectives have, in turn, shaped subsequent scholarship. This book demonstrates a sophisticated knowledge of the theoretical literature on nationalism and makes an original contribution to this literature by challenging the Eurocentric assumption that nationalism is inevitably or even centrally linked to secularism. Soleimani develops the theoretically original idea of the ‘nationalist utterance’ as an Austinian performative, suggesting how nationalisms have legitimized themselves by taking on conventional rhetorical forms modeled on Western nationalisms even when the goals and structures oflocal nationalisms are quite different . . . an important contribution.” (Katherine Ewing, Professor of Religion, Columbia University, USA)
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Book Title: Islam and Competing Nationalisms in the Middle East, 1876-1926
Authors: Kamal Soleimani
Series Title: The Modern Muslim World
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59940-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-60129-2Published: 26 May 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95621-0Published: 27 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-59940-7Published: 15 June 2016
Series ISSN: 2945-6134
Series E-ISSN: 2945-6142
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 312
Topics: History of the Middle East, Middle Eastern Politics, Islam, Religion and Society, Ethnicity Studies