Islamist Politics
(see also & )
Basics
On the Web: Articles
Right Islam vs. Wrong Islam. Abdurrahman Rahid (Gus Dur), Wall St. Journal (12/30/05).
On the Web: Specialized Sites
In the Library: Articles
Mamdani, Mahmood. "Whither political Islam?" Foreign Affairs (1-2/05).
In the Library: Non-Fiction Books
Ahmed, Akbar. Islam under Siege: Living Dangerously in a Post-Honor World (NY: Polity, 2003).
Al-‘Ashmawy, Muhammad Sa’id. Against Islamic Extremism (Gainesville, 2001).
Alatas, Hussein. The Democracy of Islam (The Hague, 1956).
Al-Husry, Kaldun S. Three Reformers: A Study in Modern Arab Political Thought (Beirut, 1966).
Ali, Tariq. The Clash of Fundamentalisms (London: Verso, 2001).
Appleby, R. Scott (ed.) Spokesmen for the Despised: Fundamentalist Leaders of the Middle East (Chicago, 1997).
__________. The Ambivalence of the Sacred: Religion, Violence, & Reconciliation (Lanham MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000).
Beinin, Joel and Joe Stork (eds.) Political Islam: Essays from Middle East Report (Berkeley: U. California, 1997).
Black, Antony. The History of Islamic Political Thought. From the Prophet to the Present (NY: Routledge, 2001).
Brown, Carl. Religion & State. The Muslim Approach to Politics (NY, 2000).
Buck-Morss, Susan. Thinking Past Terror: Islamism & Critical Theory on the Left (NY: Verso, 2003).
Burgat, François & William Dowell. The Islamic Movement in North Africa (Austin, 1993).
Cleveland, William L. Islam Against the West: Shakib Arslan & the Campaign for Islamic Nationalism (Austin, 1985).
Cormack, Margaret. Sacrificing the Self (Oxford, 2002).
Eickelman, Dale & James Piscatori, Muslim Politics (Princeton).
Elhadj, Elie. The Islamic Shield: Arab Resistance to Democratic & Religious Reforms (Boca Raton FL: Brownwalker, 2006).
Esposito, John. Voices of Resurgent Islam (NY, 1983).
__________. Islam & Politics (Syracuse, 1984).
__________. The Islamic Threat: Myth or Reality? (NY, 1992).
__________. Islam & Democracy (NY, 1996).
__________ (ed.) Political Islam: Revolution, Radicalism or Reform? (Boulder, 1997).
__________ & Michael Watson (eds.) Religion & Global Order (Cardiff, 2000).
__________ & Azzam Tamini (eds.) Islam & Secularism in the Middle East (NY, 2000).
__________. Islam & Civil Society (San Domenico de Fiesole, 2000).
__________. Unholy War: Terror in the Name of Islam (NY: Oxford, 2003).
Firestone, Reuven. Jihad: The Origin of Holy War in Islam (Oxford, 1999).
Fuller, Graham. The Future of Political Islam (NY: Palgrave, 2003).
Gerges, Fawaz A. America & Political Islam. Clash of Cultures or Clash of Interests (Cambridge, 2001).
Hiro, Dilip. Holy Wars: The Rise of Islamic Fundamentalism (NY: Routledge, 1989).
Huband, Mark. Warriors of the Prophet. The Struggle for Islam (Boulder: Westview, 1999).
Jansen, G.H. Militant Islam (NY, 1979).
Juergensmeyer, Mark. The New Cold War? Religious Nationalism Confronts the Secular State (Berkeley: U. California, 1993).
__________. Terror in the Mind of God. The Global Rise of Religious Violence (Berkeley, 2000).
Karim, Karim H. The Islamic Peril: Media & Global Violence (NY: Black Rose, 2003).
Keddie, Nikki R. An Islamic Response to Imperialism. Political & Religious Writings of Ayyid Jamal ad-Din "al-Afghani" (Berkeley, 1968).
Kepel, Gilles. Muslim Extremism in Egypt. The Prophet & the Pharaoh (Berkeley: U. California, 1985). Good for an introduction to the life & thought of the Islamist theorist Sayyid Qutb.
__________. Allah in the West: Islamic Movements in America & Europe (Stanford, 1997).
__________. Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam (Cambridge MA: Harvard, 2003).
Kerr, Malcolm H. Islamic Reform. The Political & Legal Theories of Muhammed Abduh & Rashid Ridá (Berkeley, 1966).
Mernissi, Fatima. Islam & Democracy: Fear of the Modern World (Boulder: Perseus, 2002).
Munson, Henry Jr. Islam & Revolution in the Middle East (New Haven, 1988).
Parfrey, Adam (ed.) Extreme Islam: Anti-American Propaganda of Muslim Fundamentalism (LA: Feral House, 2001).
Pinto, Maria do Ceu. Political Islam & the United States: A Study of US Policy Towards Islamist Movements in the Middle East (Reading UK: Ithaca, 1999).
Rodinson, Maxime. Marxism & the Muslim World (NY: Monthly Review, 1981).
Roy, Olivier. The Failure of Political Islam (Cambridge MA: Harvard, 1994).
Shadid, Anthony. Legacy of the Prophet: Despots, Democrats & the New Politics of Islam (Boulder: Westview, 2002).
Shahin, Emad Eldin. Political Ascent: Contemporary Islamic Movements in North Africa (Boulder: Westview, 1998).
Shore, Zahary. Breeding Bin Ladens: America, Islam, & the Future of Europe (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 2006).
Tibi, Bassam. The Challenge of Fundamentalism. Political Islam & the New World Disorder (Berkeley: U. California, 1998).
Wright, Robin. Sacred Rage: The Wrath of Militant Islam [1985] (rev. ed.; NY: Simon & Schuster, 2001).