Muslim Politics. (book reviews)

John L. Esposito, Georgetown University

Given the proliferation of studies on political Islam, the challenge in recent years has been to determine which publications are more than a duplication of previous works. In Muslim Politics, James Piscatori and Dale Eickelman have produced a distinctive study that underscores and demonstrates the dynamics and diversity of Islam and the Muslim experience. They bring diverse disciplinary approaches and area studies foci; the result is an interdisciplinary study which is conceptually rigorous, global in perspective, and remarkably well ...

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