Islamism in the modern world : a historical approach
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction : debates and terminology
- 2. Sufis, scholars and rebels : classical precedents for contemporary Islamism
- 3. The assault on tradition : Islamic revivalism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
- 4. Between muslim rationalism and European colonialism: The Islamic reformists
- 5. The first Islamists : Hasan al-Banna and the Muslim brotherhood
- 6. Islamism's chief theoretician : Mawdudi, South Asia and the Jama'at-i-Islami
- 7. Marxist borrowings : Islamism and the left
- 8. Hate-filled extremist or brutalized intelectual? Sayyid Qutb
- 9. The rule of the jurist : Khomeini and the 1979 Iranian revolution
- 10. Reformer, radical or maverick? Hasan al-Turabi and Islamism in Sudan
- 11. Between sharia, custom and patriarchy : Islamist views of women, women as Islamists
- 12. From Hizbullah to the Taliban : the militant wave
- 13. The extremist fringe? Al- Qa'eda, ISIS and the dawn of global jihadism
- 14. Twenty first century Abduhs? Post-Islamism, democracy and the Arab Spring