Routledge Handbook of Political Islam

<p>This updated, second edition of the <i>Handbook of Political Islam</i> 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. </p><p>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:</p><ul> <p> </p> <li>Theoretical foundations of political Islam</li> <p> </p> <li>Historical background</li> <p> </p> <li>Geographical spread of Islamist movements</li> <p> </p> <li>Political strategies adopted by Islamist groups</li> <p> </p> <li>Terrorism</li> <p> </p> <li>Attitudes towards democracy</li> <p> </p> <li>Relations between Muslims and the West in the international sphere</li> <p> </p> <li>Challenges of integration</li> <p> </p> <li>Gender relations</li> </ul><p>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. </p> <p>1. Political Islam Under the Spotlight <i>Shahram Akbarzadeh </i>2. Islamism beyond Politics: Sayyid Qutb’s Journey to Radicalism <i>John Calvert </i>3. Theocracy: From Wahhabism to Vilayat-e-Faqih <i>Abdullah F. Alrebh </i>4. Political Islam and Animal Issues <i>Emmanuel Karagiannis </i>5. The Muslim Brotherhood <i>Barbara Zollner </i>6. Islamic Movements and Party Politics: Two Competing Visions in Morocco <i>Esen Kirdiş </i>7. Hamas according to Hamas. A reading of its Document of General Principles <i>Jean-François Legrain </i>8. Hezbollah: Between Nationalism and Islamism <i>James Paterson and Benjamin MacQueen </i>9. Islamists, Muslim Democrats and Citizenship in Contemporary Indonesia <i>Robert Hefner </i>10. Muslim Autonomy, Political Pragmatism, and the Challenge of Islamist Extremism in the Philippines <i>Thomas M. McKenna </i>11. Islam and politics in the Maldives: rethinking political Islam <i>Azim Zahir </i>12. Political Islam in Central Asia: from religious revival to securitization <i>Hélène Thibault </i>13. Islamism in Turkey <i>Gareth Jenkins </i>14. Islamist Populism in Turkey, Islamist Fatwas and State Transnationalism <i>Ihsan Yilmaz </i>15. Facebook and Agency: Iranian Women’s Resistance and Reaffirmation <i>Shahin Gerami </i>16. Political Islamic Movements in South Asia: The Case of Jamaat-e-Islami <i>M. A. Muqtedar Khan & Rifat Binte Lutful </i>17. An Existential Crisis: The Diminishing Influence of Religion in the New Saudi Arabia <i>Eman Alhussein </i>18. Political Islam in Peace and War: The Case of Yemen <i>Silvana Toska </i>19. The two sources of jihadism <i>Bernard Rougier </i>20. Jihadi Salafism <i>Mohammed M. Hafez </i>21. The ideology of al-Qaeda <i>Christina Hellmich </i>22. The Islamic State’s Ideological and Strategic World View <i>Anthony Celso </i>23. Hizb-ut-Tahrir in the Age of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) <i>Mohamed Nawab Bin Mohamed Osman </i>24. Militant goodness and totalized meanings: some interpretations of jihad among Tajiks <i>Sophie Roche </i>25. Women in Jihad <i>Seran de Leede </i>26. Politics for Jihadi Women: Lashker-e-Taiba and Jamaat ud Dawah as a case study <i>Samina Yasmeen </i>27. Radicalisation and the challenge of Muslim integration in the European Union <i>Valerie Amiraux and Pierre-Luc Beauchesne </i>28. UK Counter-Terrorism Strategy, Muslim Diaspora Communities and the ‘Securitisation of Integration’ <i>Tahir Abbas </i>29. Revisiting S.P. Huntington’s ‘The Clash of Civilizations’ thesis <i>Howard V. Brasted, Imran Ahmed and Shafi Md. Mostofa</i></p>