POL 327 Nationalism and Islam: Post-Colonial Movements
Nationalism & Islam: Post-Colonial Movements (3 credits) compares roles and reactions of Muslim movements to nation-building paradigms and projects in the Middle East and Southeast Asia since de-colonization; Islamist parties and non-party movements in response to modernization in the twentieth century and globalization in the twenty-first century; projects of legal, educational and economic reform from "third" ways in the Nasser/Period to neoliberalism (Suharto/Sadat) and Islamization.