The Cairo School of an Islamic Civilizational Paradigm in International Relations Methodological Approaches and Analysis

Introduction

Part I. Approaches to the Study of International Relations from an Islamic Civilizational Paradigm

Chapter 1. Methodological Approaches to Studying International Relations from an Islamic Civilizational Paradigm: An Introduction

Ibrahim al-Bayyoumi Ghanim

Chapter 2. Global Public Maqāṣid: A Methodological Approach to Studying International Relations from an Islamic Civilizational Paradigm                                                                                              

Medhat al-Laithy

Chapter 3. The Approach of Sunnan and the Employment of History in the Field of International Relations                                                                                                                                                  

Sherif Abdel Rahman Saif al-Nasr

Part II. An Islamic Civilizational Paradigm in IR: Processes and Units of Analysis

Chapter 4. Resisting Hegemony in The Global System: Towards an Alternative Understanding of Universalism

Nussaiba Ashraf         

Chapter 5. The Ummah as a Level of Analysis: Examining the Example of the Semi-Periodic Journal 'My Ummah in the World' (Ummati fī al-ʿĀlam)

Magda Ibrahim Amer

Part III. Scholarly Insights on the Cairo School of an Islamic Civilizational Paradigm: Strengths, Challenges, and Prospects

Chapter 6. International Relations and Islam: Towards a More Just and Humane World

Mustapha Kamal Pasha

Chapter 7. The Cairo School: A Critical Assessment and Future Horizons

Bahgat Korany

Biography

Nadia Mahmoud Mostafa is a Professor of Political Science at Cairo University, and was former Head of the Department of Political Science, and Head of the Civilization Center for Studies and Research.

Amira Abou Samra is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University.

“This modestly presented book has profound implications. Islam becomes not an object of enquiry for conventional IR, but an alternative, transformative way of knowing world politics. This is essential reading for everyone with a serious interest in global scholarship.”

Jan Aart Scholte, Professor and Chair, Global Transformations and Governance Challenges Institute of Political Science & Institute of Security and Global Affairs at Leiden University, Netherlands