Author: Shireen T. Hunter
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Keywords: islam, modernity, mediating, reformist, voices
Number of Pages: 322
Published: 2008-08-31
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0765622394
ISBN-13: 9780765622396

In recent years, Islamic fundamentalist, revolutionary, and jihadist movements have overshadowed more moderate and reformist voices and trends within Islam. This compelling volume introduces the current generation of reformist thinkers and activists, the intellectual traditions they carry on, and the reasons for the failure of reformist movements to sustain broad support in the Islamic world today.Richly detailed, regionally focused chapters cover Iran, the Arab East, the Maghreb, South Asia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey, Europe, and North America. The editor’s introductory chapter traces

Author: Shireen Hunter
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: september, eurasia, developments, strategic
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2004-07-21
List price: $190.00
ISBN-10: 0714655856
ISBN-13: 9780714655857

Presenting the views of leading experts on strategic considerations in Eurasia, this volume shows that the 11 September attacks and subsequent developments have affected the way in which international relations are evaluated. In addition, these developments have turned the concept of asymmetric threats, including large-scale international terrorist attacks, into genuine realistic dangers threatening our security. As a result, the conventional mindset over issues of war and peace, of existing alliances and partnerships, even of the character of the international system has to be re-evaulated. T

Author: Shireen T. Hunter
Publisher: Praeger Paperback
Keywords: peaceful, coexistence, civilizations, clash, islam, west, future
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 1998-03-30
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0275962881
ISBN-13: 9780275962883

Shireen Hunter provides a pragmatic analysis of relations between Islam and the West, marked by specific cases from the contemporary Islamic/Western divide. Her book gives a realistic and accurate assessment of the relative role of civilizational factors in determining the nature of the state and the prospects for Muslim-Western relations (i.e., whether they will be conflictual or cooperative). Hunter answers the question: Can an accommodation between Islam and the West take place in a gradual and evolutionary manner or will it happen only after conflict and confrontation? And, contrary to Hun

Authors:Shireen T. Hunter, Huma Malik,
Publisher: Praeger
Keywords: islam, democracy, modernization
Number of Pages: 376
Published: 2005-01-30
List price: $31.95
ISBN-10: 027598530X
ISBN-13: 9780275985301

The Islamic world has a poor record in terms of modernization and democracy. However, the source of this situation is not religion—Islam—but rather factors including colonialism, international economic and trading systems, and the role of the military, among others. Recognizing these themes allows the consideration of possible remedies for change in the Muslim world.The distinguished scholars contributing to this volume identify key factors—some intrinsic to the Muslim world, and some external—that contribute to Islam’s current predicament. Contrary to much prevailing thought and

Authors:Huma Malick,  Shireen T. Hunter,
Publisher: Praeger
Keywords: islam, democracy, modernization
Number of Pages: 376
Published: 2005-01-30
List price: $115.00
ISBN-10: 0275985113
ISBN-13: 9780275985110

The Islamic world has a poor record in terms of modernization and democracy. However, the source of this situation is not religion, but factors including colonialism, international economic and trading systems, and the role of the military, among others. Recognizing these themes allows the consideration of possible remedies for change in the Muslim world.The Islamic world has a poor record in terms of modernization and democracy. However, the source of this situation is not religion—Islam—but rather factors including colonialism, international economic and trading systems, and the role of

Author: Shireen Mardziah Hashim
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Keywords: malaysia, poverty, inequality, income
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 1998-07-16
List price: $97.00
ISBN-10: 0847688585
ISBN-13: 9780847688586

This thorough analysis of Malaysia’s economic expansion evaluates the success of the government’s New Economic Policy (NEP), which was designed to promote national unity by reducing poverty as well as by loosening the link between ethnicity and economic function. The first comprehensive analysis of income distribution trends after the inauguration of the NEP, the study also considers interethnic, urban-rural, and regional variations over time. Although there have been significant reductions in poverty and income inequality, Hashim uses previously unpublished data to show that both

Authors:Shireen Jejeebhoy, Michael Koenig, Christopher Eli
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: multidisciplinary, research, approach, disorders, gynaecological, reproductive, tract, infections, investigating
Number of Pages: 482
Published: 2003-03-17
List price: $180.00
ISBN-10: 0521818125
ISBN-13: 9780521818124

Women’s reproductive tract infections and other gynecological disorders are an enormous global health burden. This significant book helps focus research in this important, neglected area. It is a vital tool for doctors, epidemiologists and public health professionals to formulate effective ways of evaluating the scale of this problem within the local community. The book takes an international perspective and recognizes that gathering gynecological information in different societies requires a sensitive and multidisciplinary approach. This research highlights the social significance of th