This updated, second edition of the Handbook of Political Islam covers a range of political actors that use Islam to advance their cause. While they share the ultimate vision of establishing a political system governed by Islam, their tactics and methods can be very different. Capturing this diversity, this volume also sheds light on some of the less-known experiences from South East Asia to North Africa.
Drawing on expertise from some of the top scholars in the world, the chapters examine the main issues surrounding political Islam across the world, including:
- Theoretical foundations of political Islam
- Historical background
- Geographical spread of Islamist movements
- Political strategies adopted by Islamist groups
- Terrorism
- Attitudes towards democracy
- Relations between Muslims and the West in the international sphere
- Challenges of integration
- Gender relations
Capturing the geographical spread of Islamism and the many manifestations of this political phenomenon make this book a key resource for students and researchers interested in political Islam, Muslim affairs and the Middle East.
1. Political Islam Under the Spotlight
Shahram Akbarzadeh
2. Islamism beyond Politics: Sayyid Qutb’s Journey to Radicalism
John Calvert
3. Theocracy: From Wahhabism to Vilayat-e-Faqih
Abdullah F. Alrebh
4. Political Islam and Animal Issues
Emmanuel Karagiannis
5. The Muslim Brotherhood
Barbara Zollner
6. Islamic Movements and Party Politics: Two Competing Visions in Morocco
Esen Kirdiş
7. Hamas according to Hamas. A reading of its Document of General Principles
Jean-François Legrain
8. Hezbollah: Between Nationalism and Islamism
James Paterson and Benjamin MacQueen
9. Islamists, Muslim Democrats and Citizenship in Contemporary Indonesia
Robert Hefner
10. Muslim Autonomy, Political Pragmatism, and the Challenge of Islamist Extremism in the Philippines
Thomas M. McKenna
11. Islam and politics in the Maldives: rethinking political Islam
Azim Zahir
12. Political Islam in Central Asia: from religious revival to securitization
Hélène Thibault
13. Islamism in Turkey
Gareth Jenkins
14. Islamist Populism in Turkey, Islamist Fatwas and State Transnationalism
Ihsan Yilmaz
15. Facebook and Agency: Iranian Women’s Resistance and Reaffirmation
Shahin Gerami
16. Political Islamic Movements in South Asia: The Case of Jamaat-e-Islami
M. A. Muqtedar Khan & Rifat Binte Lutful
17. An Existential Crisis: The Diminishing Influence of Religion in the New Saudi Arabia
Eman Alhussein
18. Political Islam in Peace and War: The Case of Yemen
Silvana Toska
19. The two sources of jihadism
Bernard Rougier
20. Jihadi Salafism
Mohammed M. Hafez
21. The ideology of al-Qaeda
Christina Hellmich
22. The Islamic State’s Ideological and Strategic World View
Anthony Celso
23. Hizb-ut-Tahrir in the Age of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)
Mohamed Nawab Bin Mohamed Osman
24. Militant goodness and totalized meanings: some interpretations of jihad among Tajiks
Sophie Roche
25. Women in Jihad
Seran de Leede
26. Politics for Jihadi Women: Lashker-e-Taiba and Jamaat ud Dawah as a case study
Samina Yasmeen
27. Racialization and the construction of the problem of the Muslim presence in Western societies
Valerie Amiraux and Pierre-Luc Beauchesne
28. UK Counter-Terrorism Strategy, Muslim Diaspora Communities and the ‘Securitisation of Integration’
Tahir Abbas
29. Revisiting S.P. Huntington’s ‘The Clash of Civilizations’ thesis
Howard V. Brasted, Imran Ahmed and Shafi Md. Mostofa
Biography
Shahram Akbarzadeh is Convenor of the Middle East Studies Forum at the Alfred Deakin Institute, Deakin University, Australia. He held a prestigious Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (2012–16) on the role of Islam in Iran’s foreign policy making and recently completed a project on Proxy Wars in the Middle East and South Asia, sponsored by Carnegie Corporation New York.
