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Ahmet T. Kuru (Ph.D., University of Washington) is the director of Center for Islamic and Arabic Studies and Professor of Political Science at San Diego State University. He was a postdoctoral scholar at Columbia University. Kuru is the author of Secularism and State Policies toward Religion: The United States, France, and Turkey (Cambridge University Press, 2009), which received Society for the Scientific Study of Religion (SSSR)'s Book Award. He is also the co-editor (with Alfred Stepan) of Democracy, Islam, and Secularism in Turkey (Columbia University Press, 2012). Kuru's articles appeared in various journals including World Politics, Comparative Politics, and Political Science Quarterly. His recent book, Islam, Authoritarianism, and Un ...more

Muslims Need Critical Self-Reflection: Beyond Essentialism and Postcolonialism

Muslim-majority countries have shown high levels of authoritarianism and low levels of socioeconomic development in comparison to world averages. The contemporary problems of Muslims are especially puzzling given the scholarly and socioeconomic achievements of their predecessors.

Between the eighth and eleventh centuries, the Muslim world produced creative polymaths and played a pivotal role in int Read more of this blog post »
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Published on November 06, 2019 08:11 Tags: authoritarianism, essentialism, islam, postcolonialism, underdevelopment
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