Bureaucratizing Islam

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-1-108-39998-2
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 287 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 418 g

How have states in the Middle East and North Africa responded to the War on Terror? While much scholarship has focused on terrorism in the region, there is need for critical studies of Middle Eastern states' counter-terrorism policies. This book addresses that need by investigating Morocco's unique approach to counter-terrorism: the bureaucratization of religion. Morocco's strategy is unique in the degree to which it relies on reforms that seek to make the country's religious institutions into tools for rewarding loyalty and discouraging dissent from religious elites. Through these measures they have limited opposition through an enduring form of institutional control, accommodating some of the country's most virulent critics. This book will be of great use to researchers and scholars of Middle Eastern politics, and it will also appeal to those policymakers interested in security studies and counter-terrorism policies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wainscott, Ann Marie

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Terrorismus, Religiöser Fundamentalismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Nationale und Internationale Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Leben & Praxis
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Religiöse Institutionen & Gemeinschaften, Klerus, Mönchstum

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Transliteration notes; Acknowledgements; Preface; 1. Introduction: joining the war on terror; 2. Middle Eastern states' responses to the war on terror; Part I. Reshaping Islam: 3. Moroccan Islam in the twenty-first century; 4. Anatomy of a religious bureaucracy; Part II. Reshaping the State: 5. Gendered reforms in 'moderate' Morocco; 6. Deploying Moroccan religious policy through public education; 7. Controlling credentials in higher Islamic education; 8. Exporting Moroccan Islam: a religious foreign policy; Conclusion: Morocco, the US, and the problem of terrorism; Bibliography; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Wainscott, Ann Marie
Ann Marie Wainscott is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Miami University. In 2017, she will serve as the American Academy of Religion/Luce Fellow in Religion and International Affairs at the State Department, and will be placed in the Office of Religion and Global Affairs as a counterterrorism specialist. She has previously been named a Boren Fellow and a Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellow. She speaks French and Arabic. Her work has appeared in the Journal of North African Studies.