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1. Muslim Active Citizenship in the West

   By Shahram Akbarzadeh, Mario Peucker

   Series: Islamic Studies Series

   This book investigates Muslims’ struggle for recognition as equal citizens in Australia, Great Britain and Germany: what measures have been adopted by Muslims to achieve active citizenship? How do socio-political and socio-economic factors impede or advance this process? How have Muslim groups...

   To Be Published December 31st 2013 by Routledge
2. American Democracy Promotion in the Changing Middle East

   From Bush to Obama

   Edited by Shahram Akbarzadeh, James Piscatori, Benjamin MacQueen, Amin Saikal

   Series: Durham Modern Middle East and Islamic World Series

   The recent "Arab spring", with its popular uprisings in many Arab countries, has exposed the ambiguity at the heart of American promotion of democracy in the Middle East. The US invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq were packaged as democracy promotion, as heralding the beginning of a new phase in the...

   Published October 31st 2012 by Routledge
3. Routledge Handbook of Political Islam

   Edited by Shahram Akbarzadeh

   The Routledge Handbook of Political Islam provides a multidisciplinary overview of the phenomenon of political Islam, one of the key political movements of our time. Drawing on the expertise from some of the top scholars in the world it examines the main issues surrounding political Islam across...

   Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
4. Islam and Human Rights in Practice

   Perspectives Across the Ummah

   Edited by Shahram Akbarzadeh, Benjamin MacQueen

   Series: Routledge Advances in Middle East and Islamic Studies

   Questions over the compatibility of Islam and Human Rights have become a key area of debate in the perceived tensions between ‘Islam and the West’. In many ways, discussion over the stance of Islam in relation to such factors as gender rights, religious freedom, social and political freedoms, and...

   Published December 13th 2010 by Routledge
5. US Foreign Policy in the Middle East

   The Roots of Anti-Americanism

   By Kylie Baxter, Shahram Akbarzadeh

   Over the last sixty years, Washington has been a major player in the politics of the Middle East. From Iran in the 1950s, to the Gulf War of 1991, to the devastation of contemporary Iraq, US policy has had a profound impact on the domestic affairs of the region. Anti-Americanism is a pervasive...

   Published April 24th 2008 by Routledge
6. Islam and Political Legitimacy

   Edited by Shahram Akbarzadeh, Abdullah Saeed

   Akbarzadeh and Saeed explore one of the most challenging issues facing the Muslim world: the Islamisation of political power. They present a comparative analysis of Muslim societies in West, South, Central and South East Asia and highlight the immediacy of the challenge for the political leadership...

   Published May 2nd 2007 by Routledge
7. Islam and Globalization

   Edited by Shahram Akbarzadeh

   Series: Critical Concepts in Islamic Studies

   Globalization has opened up non-Western societies to forces of economic, political and cultural liberalism for the first time, and this process has had a profound effect upon Islamic societies, causing unease and concern among many Muslims. Moreover, this apprehension has been exacerbated by the...

   Published June 29th 2006 by Routledge