With prescience and clarity political islam and the invention of tradition reminds policy makers analysts and students of why the study of history is so important for understanding current events especially in a complicated region such as the middle east this book is unique among academic monographs in that although scholarly in scope tone and source material it has practical . Political islam and the invention of tradition provides timely unique and informed insight into the phenomenon of political islam by tracing its historical development in the context of the modern world historical theme of the asymmetric development and modernization of different societies. Isbn 9780990693963 0990693961 oclc number 905525225 description xxii 245 pages 23 cm contents introduction part one context framework and labels crisis of the muslim intellectual in the modern era muslim evaluations of the west in the modern era part two emergence of political islam tanzimat mode of renewal and reform part three power and authority in an islamic state. Islam and the invention of tradition nicholas p roberts new academia publishing 2015 245 pages 2600 bp173 roberts identifies political islamists as those muslims who believe that islam contains within it a distinctive and comprehensive political program for all aspects of human existence and thus call for the establishment of an islamic