Global political Islam
This book is an accessible and comprehensive account of the international and global dimensions of political Islam in the twenty-first century. Drawing on insights from international relations and Islamic studies, it explains the complex interaction between political Islam, nationalism and globalisa...
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London ; New York
Routledge
[2007]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : thinking about Islam and politics in global perspective
- Islam and politics : history and key concepts
- State formation and the making of Islamism
- Islam in the system : the evolution of Islamism as political strategy
- Islam as the system : Islamic states and "Islamization" from above
- Islam for lack of a system : Islamism in weak and failed states
- Radical Islamism and jihad beyond the nation-state
- Muslim transnationalism : brotherhoods, networks, diasporas
- Who speaks for Islam? : religious authority in the global umma
- Beyond Islamism : globalization and Muslim politics
- Appendix : key economic and political indicators for selected Muslim countries.