Ideology, society and the state in post-colonial Muslim societies.

Abstract

This essay deals with the relations between state, society and ideology in certain post-colonial Muslim societies. For the purposes of this discussion 'post-colonial' is taken to begin with the Ataturk and Reza Shah regimes in Turkey and Iran, when important political and economic breaks were made with Western power, and to begin with the achievement of independence from colonialism in the other countries discussed.-from Author