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Political Islam from Muhammad to Ahmadinejad : defenders, detractors, and definitions
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Political Islam from Muhammad to Ahmadinejad : defenders, detractors, and definitions

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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-Gama ́a 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 problems of defining the fundamentalist regime in Iran and assessing the 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, Catholicism, and Islam / Edward T. Barrett.

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