Introduction. The struggle to define a nation : rethinking religious nationalism in the contemporary Islamic world / Marco Demichelis and Paolo Maggiolini -- Religious nationalism in the official culture of multi-confessional Lebanon / Alexander D. M. Henley -- Syria's Lebanonization : an historical excursus within the "non-existence" of Syrian national identity / Marco Demichelis -- Nation-narrating monarchies : the religious "soft power" of the Moroccan and Jordan kings / Menno Preuschaft -- Saudi national identity : historical and ideational dimensions / Elena Maestri -- Religion and nationalism : Palestinian Christians and religious leadership in the midst of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict / Paolo Maggiolini -- "Under the same flag" : the Copts of Egypt and the challenges of Nasserist nationalism / Alessia Melcangi -- The loner desperado : oppression, nationalism and Islam in occupied Palestine / Ilan Pappe -- Self-sacrifice and forgiveness : religion and nationalism in the new Israeli and Palestinian cinema / Yael Ben-Zvi Morad -- Rethinking nationalism -- Religion and nation building in Turkey : the role of institutionalized religion in the case of Diyanet / Gu˜l Sen -- Jundallah and radical religious nationalism / Fatemeh Shayan -- Nationalism and Islamism as opposing determinants of Iranian national identity / Alam Saleh -- Evolving face of Pakistan's religious nationalism / Raja Muhammad Ali Saleem -- The limits of secular nationalism : revisiting the politics of Islam and national identity in Bangladesh / Humayun Kabir -- The broken mirror : how the contemporary Jihadist narrative is re-shaping the classical doctrine of Jihad / Riccardo Redaelli -- Emerging trends in the broader Jihadi galaxy : between radicalization and new models of Jihadism / Andrea Plebani -- Conclusion 1 : from the Nahda to nowhere? / Paolo Branca -- Conclusion 2 : democracy, nationalism and religion in the Arab world / Youssef M. Choueiri.
Summary:
The present volume analyses the relation between religion and nationalism within the wider context of the so-called "Islamic World" from the first half of twentieth century until the most recent events of the Arab Spring. In particular, the book seeks to investigate the historical significance of this relationship, evaluating and exploring its multidimensional character, with a particular focus on the concepts of the 'nationalization' of religion and 'religious nationalism'. The book comprises chapters from seventeen specialists.
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