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Are Muslims Distinctive?
A Look at the Evidence
M. Steven Fish
400 pages
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14 b/w illus.
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235x156mm
978-0-19-976921-6
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Paperback
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17 February 2011
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- The first book-length work that uses quantitative methods to address the big questions about whether, and how, the political behavior of Muslims is unique
- Draws surprising conclusions about Muslims' religiosity, attitudes toward government, and proneness to political violence
- Shifts the grounds of the debate from overheated rhetoric to fact-finding and hypothesis-testing
How, if at all, do Muslims and non-Muslims differ? The question spurs spirited discussion among people the world over, in Muslim and non-Muslim lands alike, but we still lack answers based on sound empirical evidence. This book engages a set of the biggest issues using rigorous methods and data drawn from around the globe. It reveals that in some areas Muslims and non-Muslims differ less than is commonly imagined, and shows that Muslims are not unusually religious or inclined to favor the fusion of religious and political authority. Nor are Muslims especially prone to mass political violence. Yet in some areas Muslims and
non-Muslims diverge: Gender inequality is more severe among Muslims, Muslims are unusually intolerant of homosexuality and other controversial behaviors, and democracy is rare in the Muslim world. Other areas of divergence bear the marks of a Muslim advantage: Violent crime and class-based inequities are less severe among Muslims than non-Muslims.
Committed to discovering social facts rather than either stoking prejudices or stroking political sensibilities, Are Muslims Distinctive? represents the first major scientific effort to assess how Muslims and non-Muslims differ—and do not differ—in the contemporary world. Its findings have vital implications for human welfare, interfaith understanding, and the foreign policies of the United States and other Western
countries.Readership: Scholars and students of political science, international relations, religion and politics, and Islam. Policymakers and public officials; particularly those concerned with Islam, Muslims, and religion and politics.
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M. Steven Fish, Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley M. Steven Fish is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He has served as a Senior Fulbright Fellow and Visiting Professor at the Airlangga University in Indonesia and the European University at St. Petersburg in Russia. His books include The Handbook of National Legislatures (coauthored with Matthew Kroenig) and Democracy Derailed in Russia. Contributors:
List of Appendices, Figures, and Tables
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"Outstanding Academic Titles 2012, as selected by CHOICE Magazine (December 2012)." - CHOICE
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List of Appendices, Figures, and Tables
Acknowledgments
How to Read the Tables in this Book
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Personal Religiosity and Religion in Politics
Chapter 3: Social Capital and Personal Morality
Chapter 4: Corruption and Crime
Chapter 5: Large-Scale Political Violence and Terrorism
Chapter 6: Sex-Based and Class Inequality
Chapter 7: Democracy
Chapter 8: Conclusion
An Afterthought
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