{"product_id":"9783032312389","title":"Islam and Secular Reason Between Faith and Nihilism","description":"\u003ch1\u003eIslam and Secular Reason\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eBetween Faith and Nihilism\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eMustapha Kamal Pasha\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003ePolitical Science \/ International Relations \/ General\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;\"\u003eThis book offers an original understanding of the relation between contemporary Islam and Secular Reason. The suspicion of an increasing intrusion of the political into the religious is neither absent in critical readings of contemporary Islam, nor entirely alien to the modernizing logic of secularization. Little is novel in the recognition that in modernity religion becomes vastly more susceptible to politics; that in modernity spaces of the religious progressively begin to show signs of infirmity; or that in modernity the religious increasingly accommodates politics for its self-preservation. Equally salient is the ascendancy of the economic over the religious. The spaces in which religion survives, even thrives, are conditioned by a self-expanding economic logic. However, the \u003cem style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003euniversalizing\u003c\/em\u003e effect of Secular Reason in the Islamic Cultural Zones (ICZs) as the intensification of religiosity has not received the critical scrutiny it deserves. Often, this effect is eclipsed by the opposing processes of secularization. While secularizing tendencies are irrefutable, this monograph sees the universalizing effect of the colonization of the religious by the political not as secularization, but \u003cem style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003edespiritualization\u003c\/em\u003e, a process marked by the progressive evacuation of transcendence from faith and the degradation of the moral code attached to that faith. The apparent resurgence of religious sentiment in the ICZs on this view is an integral part of \u003cem\u003edespiritualization\u003c\/em\u003e. Exploring the workings of Secular Reason on three registers—secularity, nihilism, and sovereignty, this critical inquiry challenges established thinking on \u003cem\u003epolitical\u003c\/em\u003e Islam and its religious underpinnings.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormalCxSpMiddle\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eMustapha Kamal Pasha\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e is Professor Emeritus at Aberystwyth University in Wales, United Kingdom.\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eBefore joining Aberystwyth as Chair in International Politics in 2013, he was Sixth Century Chair and Head of International Relations at the University of Aberdeen (2006-2013). His notable publications include \u003cem\u003eIslam and International Relations: Fractured Worlds\u003c\/em\u003e (Routledge 2017); \u003cem\u003eGlobalization, Difference, and Human Security\u003c\/em\u003e (Routledge 2013; as editor); and \u003cem\u003eColonial Political Economy\u003c\/em\u003e (Oxford 1998). Professor Pasha received the International Studies Association (ISA) Global Development Section’s Eminent Scholar Award in 2024. He served as Vice President of the ISA in 2012-2013.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e10 December 2026\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSpringer Nature Switzerland\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePalgrave Macmillan\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9783032312389\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e276\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Springer Nature Switzerland","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50300946579596,"sku":"9783032312389","price":89.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9783032312389","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}