Bassam Tibi

Datos Biográficos

ID279599
NOMBREBassam Tibi
NOMBRESBassam
APELLIDOTibi
FIRMATIBI B
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Göttingen
VERIFICADONo
TOTAL DE OBRAS66
TOTAL DE CITAS97
TOTAL COMO AUTOR66
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1971
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2017
ÍNDICE H6

  • Islamic Law/Shari’a, Human Rights, Universal Morality and International Relations

    Bassam TibiCHAPTERInternational Law and Islamic Law2017

    This chapter focuses on the nature of human rights with regard to the emerging conflict between its universality and the cultural-assertive claims of the Islamic shari'a. Human rights are individual entitlements that evolved from European modern thought on natural law. Individual human rights are clearly a cultural concept of morality, European in origin. This concept grew from the notion of natural law and it has been related to real cultural an…

  • Changing Islamism

    Bassam TibiARTICLESoundings An Interdisciplinary…2015Citada por: 1Referencias: 11

    Scholars, and in general writers, who critically study the politicization of religion characteristic of Islamism, are often accused of essentializing Islam. This is so, even though they are describing a process of change. Yet essentialism “precludes an investigation of change ... in the name of natural and fixed characteristics” (Howarth 2010, 457). The present article argues that both Islam and Islamism are open to change. I begin with a descrip…

  • Political Islam, World Politics and Europe

    Bassam TibiBOOKPolitical Islam, World Politics…2014

    The new and updated edition of Political Islam, World Politics and Europe focusses on the shift within political Islam, in light of 9/11 and the events of the Arab Spring, from a jihadist struggle, to institutional Islamism. Refuting what has often been referred to by commentators as the ‘moderation,’ of Islamism, the second edition of this book introduces the concept of ‘institutional,’ Islamism, a process which Tibi argues was accelerated in th…

  • The Sharia State

    Bassam TibiBOOKSharia State2013

    Set against the backdrop of the Arab Spring, The Sharia State examines the Islamist concept of political order. This order is based on a new interpretation of sharia and has been dubbed "the Islamic state" by Islamists. The concept of "the Islamic state," has been elevated to a political agenda and it is this agenda that is examined here. In contrast to the prevailing view which sees the Arab Spring as a revolution, this book argues that the phen…

  • The Islamist Venture of the Politicization of Islam to an Ideology of Islamism A Critique of the Dominating Narrative in Western Islamic Studies

    Bassam TibiARTICLESoundings An Interdisciplinary…2013Citada por: 1Referencias: 25

    This article operates on the distinction between Islamism and Islam and asks questions about how this is handled in Western studies. Islam is a religion and a civilization that deserves respect, while Islamism is a political ideology to be subjected to critical inquiry. The article is based on the enlightened Muslim thought that dissociates Islamic faith from its use as a legitimation in politics. The article shares also the dismissal of oriental…

  • Sharia State

    Bassam TibiBOOKSharia State2013

  • Islamic Humanism vs. Islamism

    Bassam TibiARTICLESoundings An Interdisciplinary…2012Citada por: 3Referencias: 18

    Some prominent discussions of contemporary Islam focus on the tradition of Shari'a reasoning. This is not without reason. Not only is this tradition important in understanding militancy; it has re-emerged in connection with the Arab Spring. The present article, however, seeks to revive an alternative tradition—namely, Islamic humanism. The importance of distinguishing this alternative is not only a matter of clarifying the intellectual heritage o…

  • Response

    Open AccessBassam TibiARTICLEStudies in Ethnicity and…2011

  • The Politicization of Islam into Islamism in the Context of Global Religious Fundamentalism

    Bassam TibiARTICLEThe Journal of the Middle East…2010Citada por: 1

    The article seeks to establish a basic distinction between Islam, as a religious faith, and Islamism, as a political ideology, without denying Islamists to be based in Islam, however, in an invention of tradition. All Islamists share the goal of Islamist governance and are in disagreement, however, over the strategy/tactic: violent Jihadism or institutional participation. Despite their approval of the ballot-box, institutional Islamists reject th…

  • Ethnicity of Fear? Islamic Migration and the Ethnicization of Islam in Europe

    Open AccessBassam TibiARTICLEStudies in Ethnicity and…2010Citada por: 14Referencias: 6

    This feature article acknowledges the fact that neither Islam, understood as the umma community, nor the modern civic European nations, are ethnic identities. Why then are both related to the notion of ‘ethnicity’ in the present article? Why does the analysis of the Muslim diaspora in Europe prompt an alert of an ‘ethnicity of fear’? In order to answer these questions the analysis departs from the supposition of an ongoing ethnicization process t…

  • Reform, Change, and Democratization in the Middle East in Post-Bipolarity

    Open AccessBassam TibiARTICLEInternational Studies Review2010Referencias: 5

    In the well-informed parts of the International Relations (IR) community, the Middle East is established as a regional subsystem of the international system. This notion equally implies autonomy and interconnectedness of that region. How much did this feature change after the end of the East–West conflict? In fact, post-bipolarity triggered among other things a process of global democratization. However, this process seems to have failed to reach…

  • Nine. War and Peace in Islam

    Bassam TibiCHAPTERIslamic Political Ethics2009

  • Islamism and Democracy

    Bassam TibiARTICLETotalitarian Movements &…2009

    In the recent past there has been a very questionable shift in the West with respect to the assessment of Islamism. This shift is based on unverified assumptions and is underlain by a spirit of political correctness, combined with a drive towards a pragmatic embrace of what are termed 'moderate Islamists' in order to appease Islamism. With this mindset, policy makers and opinion leaders, as well as some scholars, have been engaging in a changed a…

  • Political Islam as a Forum of Religious Fundamentalism and the Religionisation of Politics

    Bassam TibiARTICLETotalitarian Movements &…2009

    The present essay aims to provide some basic guidelines for needed terminological and methodological clarifications in the study of political Islam. These clarifications will hopefully counteract the prevailing confusion, both in comprehending and dealing with the politicisation of religion in Islam. The article also serves as a stage‐setting contribution to this present special issue of TMPR

  • Bridging the Heterogeneity of Civilisations

    Open AccessBassam TibiARTICLETHEORIA An International Journal…2009Citada por: 3

    This article states an intercivilisational conflict between Europe and Islam and argues that it can be resolved through cross-cultural bridging and sharing grammars of humanism in the pursuit of an international morality. The plea for a revival of the suppressed tradition of Islamic humanism, and of the rationalist thought of al-Farabi, Ibn Sina and Ibn Rushd among others, acknowledges that today there is no one uniform Islam. Today, the global c…

  • Islam's Predicament with Modernity

    Bassam TibiBOOKIslam's Predicament with Modernity2009

  • Political Islam, World Politics and Europe

    Bassam TibiBOOKPolitical Islam, World Politics…2008

    Is political Islam compatible with democracy? The rise of political Islam, as a force in world politics, has prompted questions and theories concerning its nature and compatibility with democratic values. Not least have been discussions and conflicts within Islamic communities, particularly in Europe where choices of identity and allegiance are growing acute. Bassam Tibi provides a broad ranging assessment of political Islam in the world, in all …

  • Islam & Europe

    Open AccessLudo Abicht, Jean Yves Carlier et al.BOOKIslam and Europe2008

  • The Return of the Sacred to Politics as a Constitutional Law The Case of the Shari'atization of Politics in Islamic Civilization

    Open AccessBassam TibiARTICLETHEORIA An International Journal…2008Citada por: 2

  • The Return of the Sacred to Politics as a Constitutional Law The Case of the Shari'atization of Politics in Islamic Civilization

    Open AccessBassam TibiARTICLETHEORIA An International Journal…2008

  • Islamist Parties and Democracy

    Open AccessBassam TibiARTICLEJournal of democracy2008Citada por: 20Referencias: 2

    This article makes a case of the basic distinction between Islam and Islamism and presents three central arguments: 1. through religious reforms and a rethinking of the Islamic doctrine, the cultural system of Islam can be put in harmony with democracy, 2. this (first) argument does not apply to Islamism (political Islam) for the simple reason that its end is an Islamic system of government. These two arguments lead to the third, namely that demo…

  • The Totalitarianism of Jihadist Islamism and its Challenge to Europe and to Islam

    Bassam TibiARTICLETotalitarian Movements &…2007

    This article highlights aspects of Islamism ignored in much conventional political science by applying to it a composite conceptual framework made up of Hannah Arendt’s concept of totalitarianism as an ideology, movement and system of rule; political religion conceptualised both as a cultural system and as an ideology; the growing ‘culturation’ and ‘religionisation’ of politics; and the politicisation of Islam. When applied to Islamism this appro…

  • Religion in an Expanding Europe

    Open AccessPeterj Katzenstein, D Philpott et al.BOOKReligion in an Expanding Europe2006

    With political controversies raging over issues such as the wearing of headscarves in schools and the mention of Christianity in the European Constitution, religious issues are of growing importance in European politics. In this volume, Byrnes and Katzenstein analyze the effect that enlargement to countries with different and stronger religious traditions may have on the EU as a whole, and in particular on its homogeneity and assumed secular natu…

  • Islam between Culture and Politics

    Open AccessBassam TibiBOOKIslam Between Culture and Politics2005

    Bassam Tibi offers a radical solution to the problems faced by Islam in a rapidly changing and globalizing world. He proposes a depoliticization of the faith and the introduction of reforms to embrace

  • Islam between culture and politics

    Open AccessBassam TibiBOOKIslam Between Culture and Politics2001

    Bassam Tibi offers a radical solution to the problems faced by Islam in a rapidly changing and globalizing world. He argues that Islam is being torn between the pressure for cultural innovation and a defensive move towards the politicization of its symbols for non-religious ends. Tibi proposes a depoliticization of the faith and the introduction of reforms to embrace secular democracy, pluralism, civil society, and individual human rights. The al…