Table of Contents

List of Contributors
Editor's Introduction
Part I: Toward a Theoretical Appreciation of Islamism in the Contemporary Arab World
1. Muhammad Sa‘id Ramadan al-Buti, Salafism is a Blessed Historical Phase Rather Than an Islamic Legal School
2. Fathi Yakan, Toward a Unified and Universal Islamic Movement
3. Ahmad Kamal Abu’l Majd, Towards a Modern Islamic Perspective Declaration of Principles
4. Muhammad al-Ghazali, Women Between the People of Hadith and the People of Fiqh
Part II: Islamism, Jihad, and Martyrdom
5. Abdullah Anas, The Birth of ‘Afghan-Arabs’: An Algerian Perspective
6. Abdullah Azzam, What Jihad Has Taught Me!
7. Muhammad Sa‘id Ramadan al-Buti, Jihad in Islam: How to Understand and Practice it?
8. Sayyid Muhammad Hussain Fadlallah, Islam and the Question of Power
Part III. Islamism and the Question of Israel/Palestine
9. Ismail R. Faruqi, Islam and Zionism
10. Mustafa Abu Sway, From Basel to Oslo: Zionism and the Islamic Narrative
11. Mohsen Saleh, Palestine/Lebanon], The Role of the Israeli Lobby
Part IV: Contemporary Islamism: Trends and Self-Criticism
12. Abdul Qadir Awdah, Islam Between Ignorant Followers and Incapable Scholars
13. Ramadan Abdallah Shallah, The Islamic Movement and the Contemporary Challenges
14. Umar Abdel Rahman, On the Present Rulers in the Muslim World
15. Sami al-Arian, The Islamic Movement and Contemporary Crises: An Assessment and Correction
16. Rashid Ghannoushi, Islamic Movements: Self-Criticism and Reconsideration
17. Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Islamic Awakening Between Rejection and Extremism
18. Jamil Hamami, The Islamic Movement: Hopes and Aspirations;
Part V: Islamism, the West, the United States and 9/11
19. Abdel Wahab al-Masiri, Imperialism and the Contemporary Muslim world
20. Ahmad Bin Yousuf, Islamists and the West: From Confrontation to Cooperation
21. Munir Shafiq, Islam and the Challenges of Contemporary Decline
22. Kamal Habib, Transformation of the Islamic Movement and the Current American Strategy
23. Yasser Za‘atira, The United States and Islamism: Before and After 9/11
24. Muhammad Hussain Fadlallah, Muslim Youth and the West: Between Original and Contemporary Values
Part VI: Islamism in the Contemporary Arab World
25. Fahd al-Qahtani, Islam and Saudi Paganism
26. Muhammad al-Masa‘ari, Conclusive Evidences for the Illegality of the Saudi State
27. Abdel Qadim Zalloum, How to Revive Islamic Caliphate?
28. Zaki Ahmad, Recent Changes in the Arab-Islamist Movements
29. Ahmad al-Raysouni, The Islamic Movement in Morocco: Resurgence or Decline?
30. Shaykh Ali al-Bayanuni, The Syrian Muslim Brotherhood
31. Ishaq al-Farhan, The Future of Islamist Work: The Islamist Movement in the Context of International Transformations and the Gulf Crisis;
32. Yahia H. Zoubir, Islamist Political Parties in Contemporary Algeria
33. Sami Abdallah, The Islamic Movement in the Gulf Region
34. Tarik Hamdi Al-Azami, The Islamic Movement in Modern Iraq, Sunni Dimension
35. Malik Bennabi, The Ideational World and Its Impressed and Expressed Ideas

About the Author

Ibrahim M. Abu-Rabi' is the holder of the Edmonton Council of Muslim Communities Chair of Islamic Studies at the University of Alberta. His many books include The Contemporary Arab Reader on Political Islam (Pluto, 2010), Myth and Reality in the Contemporary Islamist Movement (Pluto, 2005), and The Blackwell Companion to Contemporary Islamic Thought (Blackwells, 2006).

Reviews

'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.*

'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)*

'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*

'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 & Public Life, University of Alberta, Canada.*

'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.*

'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*