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Muslim political thought

[Book Review] Islam, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment: A Global and Historical Comparison, by Ahmet T. Kuru (Cambridge University Press, 2019)| Reviewed by Rana Osman

By Rana Osman // April 29, 2021September 7, 2021

Islam, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment: A Global and Historical Comparison is an ambitious project that offers a closer look to a frequently asked question: why does authoritarianism reign supreme in most Muslim-majority countries today? In a…

Identity Politics, Divisions within Islam and the Need for Incorporating the Concept of Political Dissent in Islamic Political Culture

By Seyed Mohammad Ali Taghavi // May 22, 2017

There is an ongoing debate among modern Muslim scholars as to whether politics and religion are intrinsically tied together in Islam, or that such a link has merely been a coincidence, imposed upon the religion…