Scriptural Politics

The Bible and Koran as Political Models in Africa and the Middle East

This work offers a comparison of Islamic and Christian radicalism in the 1990s. The authors explain how the different political traditions of Africa and the Middle East shape reactions to the Koran and the Bible.

The Quran and the Bible as political models in Africa and the Middle East - introduction, Niels Kastfelt; the Quran as a political model, Ahmad S. Moussalli; Sharia and Sunna in the Quran and in the writing of Sayyid Qutb, Jorgen Back Simonsen; the Bible as a political model, Holder Bernt Hansen; the Bible as a political document in Africa, Paul Gifford; the Bible, the Quran and the conflict in South Sudan, M.A. Mohamed Salih; the Quran as an economic model - the notion of an Islamic economy, Endre Stiansen; the Quran and the Bible as models for politics - the contrasting experience of Zambia and Egypt, Monte Palmer; the politics of the Buganda Bible, Michael Twaddle; the politics of Nigerian Pentecostalism, Ruth Marshall-Fratani; Pentecostalism and the politics of prophetic power - ambivalences of modernity in Ghana, Rijk van Dijk; from domination to participation - the politics of religion, ethnicity and socio-cultural models in northern Cameroon, Quentin Gausset; seek ye first the Christian political kingdom - the Bible as a political model in the Nigerian middle belt, Niels Kastfelt.