Political Islam from Muhammad to Ahmadinejad

defenders, defractors, and definitions

Political Islam from Muhammad to Ahmadinejad
Joseph Morrison Skelly
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Political Islam from Muhammad to Ahmadinejad

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Table of Contents

Foreword / Bernard Lewis
Introduction
Political Islam from Muhammad to Ahmadinejad / Joseph Morrison Skelly
The origins of political Islam
Balanced opposition : the tribal foundations of Arab Middle Eastern Islamic culture / Philip Carl Salzman
Why did Muhammad attack the Byzantines : a re-examination of Quran sura 30:1-2 / David Cook
Challenging the Islamist politicization of Islam : the non-Islamic origins of Muslim political concepts / Sherko Kirmanj
Interpreting political Islam
War and peace : negotiating meaning in Islam / Robert P. Barnidge, Jr.
The quranic concept of war / Joseph C. Myers
Jihad in Africa : past and present
Mad mullahs and the pax Britannica : Islam as a factor in Somali resistance to British colonial rule / George L. Simpson, Jr.
Jihadists and jurisprudents : the revisions literature of Sayyid Imam and Al-gamaa al-Islamiyya / Daniel J. Lav
Takfir as a tool for instigating Jihad among Muslims : the ghanaian example / Mohammed Hafiz
Political Islam in Iran, Iraq, and Palestine
Reading Tehran in Washington : the problem of defining the fundamentalist regime in Iran and prospects for political change / Ofira Seliktar
The modern impact of Mahdism and the case of Iraq / Timothy R. Furnish
Palestinian precedents : the origins of Al-Qaeda's use of suicide terrorism and Istishhad / Benjamin T. Acosta
Economic reform and reforming Ilam
Economic justice in the Middle East : a bad idea, badly done / Patrick Clawson
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
Hermeneutics and human rights : liberal democracy, C atholicism, and Islam / Edward T. Barrett.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Santa Barbara, Calif

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
320.5/57
Library of Congress
BP173.7 .P653 2009, BP173.7 .P653 2010, BP173.7.P653 2009

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23668148M
ISBN 13
9780313372230, 9780313372247
LCCN
2009031610
OCLC/WorldCat
318420801
Library Thing
9577905

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