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Islam and Secularism in the Middle East

Islam and Secularism in the Middle East

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IslamGeneral Middle Eastern HistoryInternational Relations

ISBN10: 0814782612
ISBN13: 9780814782613
Publisher: New York Univ Pr
Published: Oct 1 2000
Pages: 295
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.52 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Western civilization tends to view secularism as a positive achievement. From this perspective, benefits of secularizing trends include the separation of church and state, the rule of law, and freedom from organized religion.
In the Arab Middle East, however, Islamist intellectuals increasingly cite Western-inspired secularism as the source of the region's social dislocation and political instability. While secularism in the West led to the spread of democratic values, in the Muslim world it has been associated with dictatorship, the violation of human rights, and the abrogation of civil liberties.

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