Table of Contents

1. Political Islam, Islamism and Future Prospects 2. Sayyid Qutb: Founder of Radical Islamic Political Ideology 3. Three Dimensions of the Emerging Political Philosophy of Islam 4. Modernity and Islamic Religious Consciousness 5. The Muslim Brotherhood 6. Hamas: Between Pragmatism and Radicalism 7. Hizbullah in Lebanon 8. Hizb ut-Tahrir 9. Islamic Radicalism in a Democratizing Indonesia 10. Islamism Reaches Central Asia 11. Islamism in Turkey 12. The Institutionalisation of Political Islam in Iran 13. Political Thinking on Islam and Democracy: The Case of Iran 14. Islam, Identity and Discourses in Pakistan 15. Reforming the Religious Discourse in Saudi Arabia (2001-2010) 16. De-territorialized Islamisms: Women’s Agency of Resistance and Acquiescence 17. Racialization and the Challenge of Muslim Integration in the European Union 18. UK Counter-terrorism Strategy and Muslim Diaspora Communities: The ‘Securitisation of Integration’ 19. Perpetual Struggle: The Significance of Arab-Israeli Conflict for Islamists 20. A Tortured Relationship: Islamists and US Foreign Policy 21. Islamism in the Middle East: the Resistant, the Fighter and the Mujahid 22. Islam and ‘The Clash of Civilizations?’ An Historical Perspective

About the Author

Shahram Akbarzadeh is Research Professor of Middle East and Central Asian Politics and holds the prestigious ARC Future Fellowship. He is Deputy Director (International) at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalization, Deakin University, Australia, with an active research interest in the politics of Islam and the Middle East.

Reviews

"[T]he Routledge Handbook of Political Islam is very successful indeed in imparting to the reader a sense of the breadth and variety of Islamic political thought. The editor has assembled a capable team of writers with a wide range of academic knowledge, and most of the essays in the book both are intellectually satisfying and written in a clear style that is accessible to the nonspecialist... The Routledge Handbook of Political Islam is an excellent resource. It is highly recommended for all those with an interest in issues related to political Islam."- C. Dale Walton, University of Reading, UK; Comparative Strategy: 31, 2012