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"The Islamic world - defined as those regions in which Islam is the dominant or single most important religion - covers territories as far apart as Morocco and Indonesia, Somalia and Bosnia, and includes an extraordinary range of societies and cultures. In this text, Reinhard Schulze charts the history of these societies in the 20th century, revealing what they have in common as well as their equally profound differences. Rather than stringing together individual studies of different countries, the book is structured chronologically, tracing political change in the context of culture and society. Schulze opens with a survey of the impact of colonialism and its attendant modernizing effects on the Islamic world. He then moves on to examine the rise of bourgeois nationalism in the 1920s and 1930s, the era of independence movements, the relationship between Islamic cultures and the ""republican"" political culture of the Third World, the reassertion of Islamic ideologies in the 1970s and 1980s and, finally, the issues surrounding the relationship between Islamic culture and civil society that dominated debate in the 1990s. The study provides an overview of the ways in which 20th-century modernism affected the societies of the Islamic world and how modernism was developed from an Islamic perspective."

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<p> Schulze's contribution is important to ongoing global political events. In sum, Schulze's work is interesting and highly relevant..comprehensive and convincing. - Journal of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas ,

<p> A state-of-the-art compendium of interdisciplinary understandings of how we best learn history. -Leon Fink, professor of history, University of Illinois at Chicago; Vice President, Teaching Division, AHA

<p> Schulze's contribution is important to ongoing global political events. In sum, Schulze's work is interesting and highly relevant..comprehensive and convincing.

Schulze's contribution is important to ongoing global political events. In sum, Schulze's work is interesting and highly relevant..comprehensive and convincing. -Journal of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas

A state-of-the-art compendium of interdisciplinary understandings of how we best learn history. -Leon Fink, professor of history, University of Illinois at Chicago; Vice President, Teaching Division, AHA

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REINHARD SCHULZE is Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Berne.

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