Coping with Defeat : : Sunni Islam, Roman Catholicism, and the Modern State /

Coping with Defeat : : Sunni Islam, Roman Catholicism, and the Modern State / / Jonathan Laurence.

The surprising similarities in the rise and fall of the Sunni Islamic and Roman Catholic empires in the face of the modern stateCoping with Defeat presents a historical panorama of the Islamic and Catholic political-religious empires and exposes striking parallels in their relationship with the mode...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English
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Laurence, Jonathan,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]
©2021
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (606 p.) :; 136 b/w illus. 26 tables.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • List of Tables
  • Abbreviations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Coping with Defeat
  • 1 Sunni Islam, Roman Catholicism, and the Modern St
  • The First Defeat: The End of Empire
  • 2 The Fall and Rise of Roman Catholicism
  • 3 The Plot against the Caliphate
  • 4 The Rise and Fall of Pan-Islam
  • The Second Defeat: The Nation-State Era
  • 5 Nation-State Catholicism
  • 6 Nation-State Islam
  • The Third Defeat: The Era of Believers without Borders
  • 7 Catholicism in the United States
  • 8 Islam in Europe
  • 9 Nation-State Islam versus the Islamic State
  • Conclusion: Embracing Spiritual Power
  • 10 Out of Office: Rejoining Civil Society
  • Regime Timelines: 1500–Present
  • Glossary
  • Interviews
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Illustration Credits
  • Index

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