Political Islam, Justice and Governance

• Main Author: Lo, Mbaye (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Political Economy of Islam
• Subjects: Middle East-Politics and government.; Political economy.; Religion and politics.; Terrorism.; Political violence.; Peace.; Middle Eastern Politics.; International Political Economy.; Politics and Religion.; Terrorism and Political Violence.; Conflict Studies.

This book argues that political Islam (represented by its moderate and militant forms) has failed to govern effectively or successfully due to its inability to reconcile its discursive understanding of Islam, centered on literal justice, with the dominant neo-liberal value of freedom. Consequently,...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Justice Versus Freedom: The Dilemma of Political Islam
• 2. From Liberal Freedom to Neo-liberal Inequality: The History of the Freedom Agenda
• 3. Freedom in Islamic Political Thought and Justice and Its Islamist Agents
• 4. From Political Islam to Militant Islam: The Pursuit of Justice
• 5. The Collapse of the Egyptian Revolution: Liberal Freedom Versus Islamist Justice
• 6. The Islamic State: The Rise of the Vigilante Justice
• 7. Turabi's Islamic Project: From the Rhetoric of Freedom to the Politics of Tamkeen
• 8. Morsi's Dilemma: The Shifting Sands Between Shar'iyyah and Shari'a
• 9. Conclusions: Beyond Justice and Freedom! .