Political Islam from Muhammad to Ahmadinejad
Subtitle: defenders, defractors, and definitions
By: Joseph Morrison Skelly, editor ; foreword by Bernard Lewis.
Contributors: Skelly, Joseph Morrison.
Publisher: Praeger Security International
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Santa Barbara, Calif
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780313372230; 9780313372247
Subjects: Islam and politics -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Bernard Lewis; title: Introduction; title: Political Islam from Muhammad to Ahmadinejad / Joseph Morrison Skelly; title: The origins of political Islam; title: Balanced opposition : the tribal foundations of Arab Middle Eastern Islamic culture / Philip Carl Salzman; title: Why did Muhammad attack the Byzantines : a re-examination of Quran sura 30:1-2 / David Cook; title: Challenging the Islamist politicization of Islam : the non-Islamic origins of Muslim political concepts / Sherko Kirmanj; title: Interpreting political Islam; title: War and peace : negotiating meaning in Islam / Robert P. Barnidge, Jr.; title: The quranic concept of war / Joseph C. Myers; title: Jihad in Africa : past and present; title: Mad mullahs and the pax Britannica : Islam as a factor in Somali resistance to British colonial rule / George L. Simpson, Jr.; title: Jihadists and jurisprudents : the revisions literature of Sayyid Imam and Al-gamaa al-Islamiyya / Daniel J. Lav; title: Takfir as a tool for instigating Jihad among Muslims : the ghanaian example / Mohammed Hafiz; title: Political Islam in Iran, Iraq, and Palestine; title: Reading Tehran in Washington : the problem of defining the fundamentalist regime in Iran and prospects for political change / Ofira Seliktar; title: The modern impact of Mahdism and the case of Iraq / Timothy R. Furnish; title: Palestinian precedents : the origins of Al-Qaeda's use of suicide terrorism and Istishhad / Benjamin T. Acosta; title: Economic reform and reforming Ilam; title: Economic justice in the Middle East : a bad idea, badly done / Patrick Clawson; title: For truth does not oppose truth : the agreement of divine law and philosophy in Averroës' The book of the decisive treaties (Kitab Fa.sl al-Maqal) / Terence J. Kleven; title: Hermeneutics and human rights : liberal democracy, C atholicism, and Islam / Edward T. Barrett.