Modern Islamic Political Thought

The revival and power of religious feelings among Muslims since the Iranian revolution presents a complicated and often perplexing picture of the politics of modern Islam. What are the ideas which have influenced the direction of these trends? Here Hamis Enayat provides an answer by describing and interpreting some of the major Islamic political ideas especially those expressed by Iranians and Egyptians as well as thinkers from Pakistan India Lebanon Syria and Iraq. He examines the political differences between the two main schools in Islam - Shi'ism and Sunnism. Also covered in the book is: the concept of the Islamic state; and the Muslim response to the challenge of alien and modern ideologies such as nationalism democracy and socialism - as well as notions of Shi'i modernism.