Islam, authoritarianism and underdevelopment (Book Talk), Ahmet Kuru

In his new book, Islam, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment: A Global and Historical Comparison, Ahmet T. Kuru, professor of political science at San Diego State University, shows how the problems of today's Muslim societies are rooted in the alliances forged by religious and political actors. authorities in the past. Professor Kuru (Ph.D., University of Washington) is the former director of the Center for Islamic and Arabic Studies at San Diego State University. He was a postdoctoral researcher and deputy director of the Center for the Study of Democracy, Tolerance, and Religion at Columbia University. Kuru is the author of Secularism and State Policies Toward Religion: The United States, France, and Turkey (Cambridge University Press), which received the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion Book Prize. He is also co-editor (with Alfred Stepan) of Democracy, Islam, and Secularism in Turkey (Columbia University Press). Kuru's articles have appeared in various journals, including World Politics, Comparative Politics, and Political Science Quarterly. His new book, Islam, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment: A Global and Historical Comparison(link is external) was published by Cambridge University Press in 2019. Kuru's works have been translated into Arabic, Chinese, French and Turkish.

Sponsors:
The Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy and Finance
The Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice
The Institute for the Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia

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