{"product_id":"the-contemporary-arab-reader-on-political-islam-9780745328898","title":"The Contemporary Arab Reader on Political Islam","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA comprehensive collection of contemporary writings on political Islam from key thinkers in the field. Includes a substantial introduction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The most enlightening documents that I have ever read. The ideological and geographic range of the essays is unmatched in its richness and analytical depth' -- Ghada Hashem Talhami, D. K. Pearsons Professor of Politics, EmeritaLake Forest College.\u003cbr\u003e'Opens up a panorama of modern political thought that we scarcely knew existed. The result is an absolutely indispensable compendium on contemporary Islamist movements that no student of current affairs on a global scale can ignore' -- Hamid Dabashi, the Author of Islamic Liberation Theology:  Resisting the Empire (2008)\u003cbr\u003e'A fascinating examination of a range of Arab interpretations of Islam and Islamism, including reflections on jihad, Israel\/Palestine, and responses to the West since 9\/11' -- Jane Smith, Harvard Divinity School\u003cbr\u003e'Draws together the seminal writings on Islamism from across the Arab world. Finally, in one volume, we can engage the foundational and current thinking of a diverse movement' -- David J. Goa, Director, Chester Ronning Centre for the Study of Religion \u0026amp; Public Life, University of Alberta, Canada.\u003cbr\u003e'Presents a needed and valuable world view of Islamism, as presented by many of its leading thinkers and ideologues' -- Norton Mezvinsky, Emeritus Professor of History and President, International Council for Middle East Studies.\u003cbr\u003e'An excellent collection of recent articles, originally written in Arabic by contemporary Islamist thinkers and never-before-seen by an English-speaking audience' -- Baha Abu-Laban, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of Alberta\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Contributors\u003cbr\u003e  Editor's Introduction \u003cbr\u003e  Part I: Toward a Theoretical Appreciation of Islamism in the Contemporary Arab World\u003cbr\u003e  1. Muhammad Sa‘id Ramadan al-Buti,  Salafism is a Blessed Historical Phase Rather Than an Islamic Legal School\u003cbr\u003e  2. Fathi Yakan, Toward a Unified and Universal Islamic Movement\u003cbr\u003e  3. Ahmad Kamal Abu’l Majd, Towards a Modern Islamic Perspective Declaration of Principles\u003cbr\u003e  4. Muhammad al-Ghazali, Women Between the People of Hadith and the People of Fiqh\u003cbr\u003e  Part II: Islamism, Jihad, and Martyrdom\u003cbr\u003e  5. Abdullah Anas,  The Birth  of ‘Afghan-Arabs’: An Algerian Perspective\u003cbr\u003e  6. Abdullah Azzam,  What Jihad Has Taught Me! \u003cbr\u003e  7. Muhammad Sa‘id Ramadan al-Buti,  Jihad in Islam: How to Understand and Practice it?\u003cbr\u003e  8. Sayyid Muhammad Hussain Fadlallah, Islam and the Question of Power\u003cbr\u003e  Part III. Islamism and the Question of Israel\/Palestine\u003cbr\u003e  9. Ismail R. Faruqi, Islam and Zionism\u003cbr\u003e  10. Mustafa Abu Sway, From Basel to Oslo: Zionism and the Islamic Narrative\u003cbr\u003e  11. Mohsen Saleh, Palestine\/Lebanon], The Role of the Israeli Lobby\u003cbr\u003e  Part IV: Contemporary Islamism: Trends and Self-Criticism\u003cbr\u003e  12. Abdul Qadir Awdah,  Islam Between Ignorant Followers and Incapable Scholars\u003cbr\u003e  13. Ramadan Abdallah Shallah, The Islamic Movement and the Contemporary Challenges\u003cbr\u003e  14. Umar Abdel Rahman, On the Present Rulers in the Muslim World\u003cbr\u003e  15. Sami al-Arian, The Islamic Movement and Contemporary Crises: An Assessment and Correction\u003cbr\u003e  16. Rashid Ghannoushi, Islamic Movements: Self-Criticism and Reconsideration\u003cbr\u003e  17. Yusuf al-Qaradawi,  Islamic Awakening Between Rejection and Extremism\u003cbr\u003e  18. Jamil Hamami, The Islamic Movement: Hopes and Aspirations; \u003cbr\u003e  Part V: Islamism, the West, the United States and 9\/11\u003cbr\u003e  19. Abdel Wahab al-Masiri,  Imperialism and the Contemporary Muslim world\u003cbr\u003e  20. Ahmad Bin Yousuf,  Islamists and the West: From Confrontation to Cooperation\u003cbr\u003e  21. Munir Shafiq,  Islam and the Challenges of Contemporary Decline\u003cbr\u003e  22. Kamal Habib,  Transformation of the Islamic Movement and the Current American Strategy\u003cbr\u003e  23. Yasser Za‘atira,  The United States and Islamism: Before and After 9\/11\u003cbr\u003e  24. Muhammad Hussain Fadlallah,  Muslim Youth and the West: Between Original and Contemporary Values\u003cbr\u003e  Part VI: Islamism in the Contemporary Arab World\u003cbr\u003e  25. Fahd al-Qahtani,  Islam and Saudi Paganism\u003cbr\u003e  26. Muhammad al-Masa‘ari, Conclusive Evidences for the Illegality of the Saudi State\u003cbr\u003e  27. Abdel Qadim Zalloum,  How to Revive Islamic Caliphate? \u003cbr\u003e  28. Zaki Ahmad, Recent Changes in the Arab-Islamist Movements \u003cbr\u003e  29. Ahmad al-Raysouni, The Islamic Movement in Morocco: Resurgence or Decline?\u003cbr\u003e  30. Shaykh Ali al-Bayanuni, The Syrian Muslim Brotherhood\u003cbr\u003e  31. Ishaq al-Farhan,  The Future of Islamist Work: The Islamist Movement in the Context of International Transformations and the Gulf Crisis;\u003cbr\u003e  32. Yahia H. Zoubir, Islamist Political Parties in Contemporary Algeria\u003cbr\u003e  33. Sami Abdallah, The Islamic Movement in the Gulf Region\u003cbr\u003e  34. Tarik Hamdi Al-Azami, The Islamic Movement in Modern Iraq, Sunni Dimension\u003cbr\u003e  35. Malik Bennabi,  The Ideational World and  Its Impressed and Expressed Ideas","brand":"Pluto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404297511255,"sku":"9780745328898","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-contemporary-arab-reader-on-political-islam-9780745328898","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}