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1. Democracy In Islam

   By Sayed Khatab, Gary D. Bouma

   Series: Routledge Studies in Political Islam

   Challenging the view of Islamic extremists and critics of Islam, this book explores the very topical issue of Islam’s compatibility with democracy. It examines: principles of Islam's political theory and the notion of democracy therein the notion of democracy in medieval and modern Muslim...

   Published December 19th 2011 by Routledge
2. The Essence of Islamist Extremism

   Recognition through Violence, Freedom through Death

   By Irm Haleem

   Series: Routledge Studies in Political Islam

   This book provides a critical and a conceptual analysis of radical Islamist rhetoric drawn from temporally and contextually varied Islamist extremist groups, challenging the popular understanding of Islamist extremism as a product of a ‘clash-of-civilizations’. Arguing that the essence of Islamist...

   Published November 22nd 2011 by Routledge
3. Islamic Revivalism in Syria

   The Rise and Fall of Ba'thist Secularism

   By Line Khatib

   Series: Routledge Studies in Political Islam

   Contemporary studies on Syria assume that the country’s Ba’thist regime has been effective in subduing its Islamic opposition, placing Syria at odds with the Middle East’s larger trends of rising Islamic activism and the eclipse of secular ideologies as the primary source of political activism. Yet...

   Published June 26th 2011 by Routledge
4. The Flourishing of Islamic Reformism in Iran

   Political Islamic Groups in Iran (1941-61)

   By Seyed Mohammad Ali Taghavi

   Series: Routledge Studies in Political Islam

   During the 1940s and 1950s, Islamic reformism flourished in Iran. This book examines how Iranian Islamic groups came to rethink traditional accounts of religion and nurture a politicized version of Islam. The author shows how similar social and political circumstances, but different family and...

   Published April 5th 2011 by Routledge
5. The Muslim Brotherhood

   Hasan al-Hudaybi and ideology

   By Barbara Zollner

   Series: Routledge Studies in Political Islam

   The Muslim Brotherhood is one of the most influential Islamist organisations today. Based in Egypt, its network includes branches in many countries of the Near and Middle East. Although the organisation has been linked to political violence in the past, it now proposes a politically moderate...

   Published March 13th 2011 by Routledge
6. Islam and Political Reform in Saudi Arabia

   The Quest for Political Change and Reform

   By Mansoor Jassem Alshamsi

   Series: Routledge Studies in Political Islam

   This book examines the link between Islamic thought/jurisprudence on the one hand and political action on the other. It shows how reformism is deeply rooted in Islamic tradition and how Sunni scholars have become activists for change in Saudi Arabia....

   Published August 24th 2010 by Routledge
7. The Political Thought of Sayyid Qutb

   The Theory of Jahiliyyah

   By Sayed Khatab

   Series: Routledge Studies in Political Islam

   This new book takes a literary approach in its study of Sayyid Qutb, one of the most significant political thinkers for contemporary Islamists and who has greatly influenced the likes of Osama Bin Laden. Executed by the Egyptian state in 1966, his books continue to be read and his theory of...

   Published June 7th 2009 by Routledge
8. The Power of Sovereignty

   The Political and Ideological Philosophy of Sayyid Qutb

   By Sayed Khatab

   Series: Routledge Studies in Political Islam

   The Power of Sovereignty explores the religio-political and philosophical concepts of Sayyid Qutb, one of the most influential political thinkers for contemporary Islamists and who has greatly influenced the likes of Osama Bin Laden. Executed by the Egyptian state in 1966, his books continue...

   Published June 7th 2009 by Routledge