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18 - Islam and Nationalism

from Part II - Transnational and Religious Missions and Identities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 November 2023

By
John O. Voll
Edited by
Cathie Carmichael ,
Matthew D'Auria  and
Aviel Roshwald
Cathie Carmichael
Affiliation:
University of East Anglia
Matthew D'Auria
Affiliation:
University of East Anglia
Aviel Roshwald
Affiliation:
Georgetown University, Washington DC
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Summary

Is nationalism compatible with Islamic belief and practice? Debates on this question began with the rise of modern nationalism in the Muslim world during the nineteenth century and continue in varying forms in the twenty-first century. The middle of the twentieth century marked an important moment in the evolution of these debates. Muslim leaders and activists worked to define the political and cultural identity of the Muslim countries that were becoming independent from European imperialism. They were also defining the possible relationships between Islam and nationalism. The broad spectrum of their views reflects the fundamental issues involved in deciding whether nationalism is compatible with Islam.

Keywords

Ethnicitynation-statereligionimperialismIslamism
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The Cambridge History of Nationhood and Nationalism , pp. 395 - 416
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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Further Reading

Al-Ahsan, Abdullah, Ummah or Nation? Identity Crisis in Contemporary Muslim Society (Leicester: Islamic Foundation, 1992).Google Scholar
Donohue, John J., and Esposito, John L., Islam in Transition: Muslim Perspectives, 2nd edition (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007).Google Scholar
Enayat, Hamid, Modern Islamic Political Thought (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1982).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Haim, Sylvia (ed.), Arab Nationalism: An Anthology (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1964).Google Scholar
Hourani, Albert, Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age, 1798–1939 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Karagiannis, Emmanuel, The New Political Islam: Human Rights, Democracy, and Justice (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Mandaville, Peter, Global Political Islam (London: Routledge, 2007).Google Scholar
Roy, Olivier, Globalized Islam: The Search for a New Ummah (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004).Google Scholar

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