Sovereignty, Islam, and the Modern State: A Comparative Historical Analysis
[Thesis]
Andrew James Nolte
Yeo, Andrew I.
The Catholic University of America
2018
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Committee members: Cusimano-Love, Maryann; Darnton, Christopher N.
Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-0-355-66294-8
Ph.D.
Politics
The Catholic University of America
2018
This dissertation seeks to better understand why post-colonial state-making elites within the Muslim world pursued various strategies to negotiate the relationship between political Islam and their concept of the modern, sovereign state. This exploration will take as its starting point the idea that, while certain profound theoretical incompatibilities do exist between these two ideas, each is institutionalized in particular contexts in ways that have made compromise between the two either more or less likely. Thus, via institutional analysis of path-dependence, this dissertation will illuminate the dynamic interactions between post-colonial state-making elites and their counterparts motivated by political Islam, with a goal of comprehending the ways in which the ideas each group had of Islam and the state respectively shaped the institutionalized relationship between the two in newly independent Muslim countries.
Islamic Studies; International Relations; Political science
Social sciences;High modernism;Indonesia;Political Islam;Turkey