Table of Contents

Contents: Introduction - The Nationalisation of Islamism - Islam in the West: From Acculturation to New Sets of Identities - Redefining Islam as a Mere Religion in the West - Islam on the Web and the Virtual Ummah - Neo-Fundamentalism as a Pattern and a Tool of Acculturation - The Radical Neo-Fundamentalist Networks: Osama Bin Laden - Post-Islamism:The Protestanisation of Islam - Conclusion: Islam between Religion, Culture and Individualisation.

About the Author

Olivier Roy, a researcher at C.E.R.I. in Paris, is a world authority on Islam and politics. His books include The Failure of Political Islam (Harvard University Press, 1996) and The New Central Asia (New York University Press, 2000).

Reviews

[This] new book provides one of the best and most detailed snapshots of 'real existing Islam' currently available.
*The Guardian*

a new book by Roy [is] something of an event . . . 'Globalised Islam' is a highly original, methodologically rigorous . . . superb and complex sociological study.
*The Washington Post*

High-octane brainwork . . . a large and highly intelligent contribution.
*The Economist*

Olivier Roy is perhaps the most provocative and innovative writer on Islamism today. . . . There is no more reliable guide to this labyrinth.
*Middle East Quarterly*

A characteristically informed and incisive analysis of the new transnational movements and globalized responses that have developed in that past twenty years or so in the Muslim world. . . . Roy is one of the most important analysts of political Islam today.
*James Piscatori, Fellow*