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RELIGION, EDUCATION AND GOVERNANCE IN THE MIDDLE EAST

Global Interdisciplinary Studies Series

Series Editor: Sai Felicia Krishna-Hensel
Interdisciplinary Global Studies Research Initiative, Center for Business and Economic Development, Auburn Montgomery, USA

The Global Interdisciplinary Studies Series reflects a recognition that globalization is leading to fundamental changes in the world order, creating new imperatives and requiring new ways of understanding the international system. It is increasingly clear that the next century will be characterized by issues that transcend national and cultural boundaries, shaped by competitive forces and features of economic globalization yet to be fully evaluated and understood. Comparative and comprehensive in concept, this series explores the relationship between transnational and regional issues through the lens of widely applicable interdisciplinary methodologies and analytic models. The series consists of innovative monographs and collections of essays representing the best of contemporary research, designed to transcend disciplinary boundaries in seeking to better understand a globalizing world.

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Religion, Education and Governance in the Middle East

Between Tradition and Modernity

Edited by

SAI FELICIA KRISHNA-HENSEL
Auburn University at Montgomery, USA

First published 2012 by Ashgate Publishing

Published 2016 by Routledge

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Copyright Sai Felicia Krishna-Hensel and the contributors 2012

Sai Felicia Krishna-Hensel has asserted her right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the editor of this work.

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Krishna-Hensel, Sai Felicia.

Religion, education and governance in the Middle East : between tradition and modernity. (Global interdisciplinary studies series) 1. Middle EastCivilization21st century. 2. Middle EastPolitics and government21st century. 3. Religion and politicsMiddle East. 4. Political cultureMiddle East. 5. Democracy and educationMiddle East.

I. Title II. Series

956.054dc23

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Religion, education, and governance in the Middle East : between tradition and modernity / [edited] by Sai Felicia Krishna-Hensel.

p. cm. (Global interdisciplinary studies series) Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4094-3986-8 (hardback : alk. paper) 1. Islamic educationPolitical aspectsMiddle East. 2. Islam and politicsMiddle East. I. Krishna-Hensel, Sai Felicia.

LC910.3.R45 2012

320.956dc23

2012016623

ISBN 9781409439868 (hbk)

Contents

Sai Felicia Krishna-Hensel

Alise Coen

Deina Abdelkader

Vnia Carvalho Pinto

Benedetta Berti

Krad Turan

Sultan Tepe

Yusuf Sarfati

Ebru Tekin

List of Figures and Tables

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List of Contributors

Sai Felicia Krishna-Hensel, Director, Interdisciplinary Global Studies Initiative, Auburn University at Montgomery, USA

Alise Coen, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Emory & Henry College, Emory, VA, USA

Deina Abdelkader, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA, USA

Vnia Carvalho Pinto, Assistant Professor, Institute of International Relations, University of Brasilia, Brazil

Benedetta Berti, Associate Fellow, Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), Lecturer, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Krad Turan, Assistant Professor, Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey

Sultan Tepe, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL, USA

Yusuf Sarfati, Assistant Professor, Department of Politics and Government, Illinois State University, Normal, IL, USA

Ebru Tekin, Boazii University, stanbul, Turkey

Introduction
The Middle EastModernity, Religion, and Governance

Sai Felicia Krishna-Hensel

The Middle East has always been a geopolitically strategic region. The regions distinctive cultural and political divisions present a mosaic of states that do not lend themselves to simplistic interpretations. Developments in the region continue to remind us of the importance of understanding the complex forces that are driving change across a wide variety of societies. The worlds attention is drawn to the area not only due to its geographical location, and its possession of critical energy resources, but also because evolving socio-political patterns are a rich source for comprehending social change.

The continuity and dominance of traditional cultures in the region have sometimes been interpreted as signs of regression, and rejection of modernity. Nevertheless, it is important to approach the discourse on modernity from the foundation of historical tradition, in order to comprehend the development of innovative social, religious, and political institutions in the region. As is the case in other examples of regional development, the Middle East has constructed its contemporary institutions on a foundation of traditional social arrangements, values, philosophical assumptions, and everyday practices that are deeply rooted in its cultural heritage.

The patterns of political thought, the evolution of institutions, and the interaction between the customary patterns and Western influence have often been the basis of analysis of the Middle East as a whole. This line of reasoning reveals a vastly underrated diversity of experience and culture that makes for an unexpected complexity in interpreting developments in the region. The demolition of stereotypical interpretations is a by-product of the acceptance that there is not only diversity of cultures, but also diversity of interpretation, and execution of religious directives within the states of the region. The emergent pattern is one of sincere efforts to grapple with the desire for progress, while retaining some of the basis of existing cultural and political practices.

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