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The Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party PAS is the biggest opposition party in Malaysia today and one of the most prominent Islamist parties in Southeast Asia. This work recounts the historical development of PAS from 1951 to the present, and looks at how it has risen to become a political movement that is both local and transnational, tracking its rise from the Cold War to the age of the War on Terror, and its evolving ideological postures - from anti-colonialism to post-revolutionary Islamism, as the party adapted itself to the realities of the postmodern global age. PAS's long engagement with modernity and its nuanced approach to the goal of state capture is the focus of this work, as it recounts the story of the Islamist party and Malaysia by extension. Download the Table of Contents and Introduction

Islam and politics --- Parti Islam Semalaysia --- Parti Islam se-Malaysia --- P.A.S. --- PAS --- Pan Malaysian Islamic Party --- PMIP --- Parti Islam Malaysia --- P.M.I.P. --- Party Islam (Malaysia) --- Islamic Party of Malaysia --- PAS Pusat --- History. --- Malaysia --- Politics and government. --- Partai Islam Se Malaysia --- Asia. --- Islam. --- Malaysia. --- Political Islam.

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In the post-Cold War era, why has democratization been slow to arrive in the Arab world? This book argues that to understand support for the authoritarian status quo in parts of this region--and the willingness of its citizens to compromise on core democratic principles--one must factor in how a strong U.S. presence and popular anti-Americanism weakens democratic voices. Examining such countries as Jordan, Kuwait, Morocco, Palestine, and Saudi Arabia, Amaney Jamal explores how Arab citizens decide whether to back existing regimes, regime transitions, and democratization projects, and how the global position of Arab states shapes people's attitudes toward their governments. While the Cold War's end reduced superpower hegemony in much of the developing world, the Arab region witnessed an increased security and economic dependence on the United States. As a result, the preferences of the United States matter greatly to middle-class Arab citizens, not just the elite, and citizens will restrain their pursuit of democratization, rationalizing their backing for the status quo because of U.S. geostrategic priorities. Demonstrating how the preferences of an international patron serve as a constraint or an opportunity to push for democracy, Jamal questions bottom-up approaches to democratization, which assume that states are autonomous units in the world order. Jamal contends that even now, with the overthrow of some autocratic Arab regimes, the future course of Arab democratization will be influenced by the perception of American reactions. Concurrently, the United States must address the troubling sources of the region's rising anti-Americanism.

Anti-Americanism --- Democratization --- Islam and politics --- Democratic consolidation --- Democratic transition --- Political science --- New democracies --- Antiamericanism --- Government policy --- Arab countries --- United States --- Politics and government --- Foreign relations --- Arab citizens. --- Arab world. --- Cold War. --- Hamas. --- Islamic Party for Justice and Development. --- Islamic movements. --- Islamist opposition movements. --- Jordan. --- Kuwait. --- Morocco. --- Palestine. --- Saudi Arabia. --- Sharia. --- Soviet Union. --- U.S. patronage. --- United States. --- anti-American sentiment. --- anti-Americanism. --- authoritarianism. --- clientelism. --- democracy. --- democratization. --- global order. --- international relations. --- monarchy. --- political preferences. --- political transition. --- post-Cold War. --- regime change. --- regime clientelism. --- regime stability. --- stateгociety relations.

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The Shi'is of Iraq provides a comprehensive history of Iraq's majority group and its turbulent relations with the ruling Sunni minority. Yitzhak Nakash challenges the widely held belief that Shi'i society and politics in Iraq are a reflection of Iranian Shi'ism, pointing to the strong Arab attributes of Iraqi Shi'ism. He contends that behind the power struggle in Iraq between Arab Sunnis and Shi'is there exist two sectarian groups that are quite similar. The tension fueling the sectarian problem between Sunnis and Shi'is is political rather than ethnic or cultural, and it reflects the competition of the two groups over the right to rule and to define the meaning of nationalism in Iraq. A new introduction brings this book into the new century and illuminates the role that Shi`is could play in postwar Iraq.

Shiites --- Shīʻah --- Chiites --- Chiisme --- History. --- History --- Political activity. --- Histoire --- Activité politique --- Iraq --- Irak --- Religious life and customs. --- Vie religieuse --- Sociology of religion --- Islam --- National movements --- anno 1900-1999 --- Shiah --- Shiites. --- Shīʻah. --- Schiiten --- Sjiʻisme. --- Iraq. --- Irak. --- Shia Muslims --- Shiah Muslims --- Shiahs --- Shias --- Shiite Muslims --- Muslims --- Imamites --- Shia --- Shiism --- Twelvers (Islam) --- Islamic sects --- Alids --- Schia --- Ahl aš-šīʿa --- Shiʻa --- Schiʻism --- Republik Irak --- Irāq --- ʿIrāq --- al-Gumhūrīya-Irāqīya --- <> Ǧumhūrīya al-ʿIrāqīya --- Komarī ʿĪrāq --- Iraqi Republic --- Ǧumhūrīyat al-ʿIrāq --- Republic of Iraq --- Bilād al-Rāfidayn --- Iraker --- Bilād al-Rāfidayn --- Bilād --- Jumhuriyah al Iraqiyah --- Rāfidayn, Bilād --- Ahl aš-šīʿa --- Shīʻah --- Shiites - Iraq - History. --- Shiah - Iraq. --- 'Adud al-Dawla. --- Abdul-Muttalib. --- Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani. --- Abu al-Qasim. --- Ahl al-Bayt. --- Ahmad Kasravi. --- Al-Amin. --- Al-Dawla. --- Al-Ghadir. --- Al-Hadi. --- Al-Hayat. --- Al-Hilli. --- Al-Mahdi. --- Al-Mu'tamid. --- Al-Mulk. --- Al-Nasir. --- Al-Qaeda. --- Al-Qassab. --- Al-Shahrastani. --- Al-Shaykh Al-Mufid. --- Al-Tusi. --- Ali Al-Wardi. --- Ali al-Ridha. --- Amin al-Husseini. --- Anglo-Iraqi Treaty. --- Bani Malik (tribe). --- Bektashi Order. --- Caliphate. --- Emir. --- Fakhr al-Din. --- Hafez. --- Hajji. --- Hamid Algar. --- Hashim. --- Hikmat Sulayman. --- Husayn ibn Ali. --- Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca. --- Hussein. --- Ibn Babawayh. --- Insurgency. --- Iranian Revolution. --- Iraqi Army. --- Iraqi Communist Party. --- Iraqi nationalism. --- Iraqis in Iran. --- Iraqis. --- Islam in Iraq. --- Islam. --- Islamic party. --- Ja'far al-Sadiq. --- Ja'far. --- Jamal ad-Din al-Afghani. --- Karbala. --- King of Syria. --- Kurdistan. --- Kurds in Iraq. --- Kuwait. --- Muawiyah I. --- Muhammad Baqir Majlisi. --- Muhammad al-Mahdi. --- Muhammad. --- Muhsin al-Hakim. --- Mujahideen. --- Murad III. --- Musa al-Kadhim. --- Naqib al-ashraf. --- Naser al-Din Shah Qajar. --- Nizam al-Mulk. --- Politique. --- Puritans. --- Qizilbash. --- Quraysh. --- Radicalism (historical). --- Revolution of 1905. --- Reza Shah. --- Roy Mottahedeh. --- Ruhollah Khomeini. --- Saddam Hussein. --- Sanctions against Iraq. --- Sati' al-Husri. --- Saud of Saudi Arabia. --- Sayyid. --- Sharaf al-Din. --- Sharia. --- Sharif of Mecca. --- Sheikh. --- Shia Islam. --- Sunni Islam. --- Syed Ahmad Khan. --- Tarif Khalidi. --- Tatbir. --- The Iraqis (party). --- Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad. --- Ulama. --- Umayyad Caliphate. --- Usuli. --- Uthman. --- Wahhabism. --- Yasin al-Hashimi.