The Contemporary Arab Reader on Political Islam brings together the writings of highly influential figures in the field of Islamism in the contemporary Arab world, many of whose writings have never been available before in English.

Table of Contents

• Editor's Introduction: Islamism from the Standpoint of Critical Theory
• PART I TOWARD A THEORETICAL APPRECIATION OF ISLAMISM IN THE CONTEMPORARY ARAB WORLD
• 1. Muhammad Sa'id Ramadan al-Buti - Salafiyyah is a Blessed Historical Phase rather than an Islamic Legal School
• 2. Fathi Yakan - The Islamic Movement: Problems and Perspectives
• 3. Ahmad Kamal Abu al-Majd - Toward a Modern Islamic Perspective: A Declaration of Principles
• 4. Muhammad al-Ghazali - The Headscarf Battle
• PART II ISLAMISM, JIHAD, AND MARTYRDOM
• 5. Abdullah Anas - The Birth of Afghan Arabs
• 6. Abdullah Azzam - What Jihad Taught Me
• 7. Muhammad Sa'id Ramadan al-Buti - Preparing the Appropriate Climate for Jihad
• 8. Sayyid Muhammad Hussain Fadlallah - Islam and the Logic of Power
• PART III—ISLAMISM AND THE QUESTION OF ISRAEL/PALESTINE
• 9. Ismai'l Raji al-Faruqi - Islam and Zionism
• 10. Mustafa Abu Sway - From Basel to Oslo: Zionism and the Islamic Narrative
• 11. Ataullah Bogdan Kopanski and Mohsen Saleh - 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 Tasks of the Current Period
• 14. Shaykh Umar Abdel Rahman - The Present Rulers and Islam
• 15. Sami al-Aryan - The Islamic Movement's Performance in Crisis: Assessment and Strategic Outlook
• 16. Rashid al-Ghannoushi - Islamic Movements: Self-Criticism and Reconsideration
• 17. Yusuf al-Qaradawi - Extremism: The Accusation and the Reality
• 18. Jamil Hamami - The Islamic Movement: Hopes and Aspirations
• PART V ISLAMISM, THE WEST, THE UNITED STATES, AND 9/11
• 19. Abdul Wahab al-Masseri - The Imperialist Epistemological Vision
• 20. Ahmad Bin Yousuf - Islamists and the West: From Confrontation to Cooperation
• 21. Mounir Shafiq - On Modernity, Liberalism, and Islamism
• 22. Kamal Habib - The Islamic Movement's Approach to Understanding Shari'ah
• 23. Yassir Zaatira - The Islamic Movement Before and After September 11, 2001
• 24. Sayyid Muhammad Hussain Fadlallah - Muslim Youth and the West
• PART VI ISLAMISM IN THE CONTEMPORARY ARAB WORLD
• 25. Fahd al-Qahtani - Islam and Saudi Paganism
• 26. Muhammad al-Masa'ari - Definite Proof of the Illegitimacy of the Saudi State
• 27. ‘Abd al-Qadim Zalloum - How Was the Caliphate Destroyed?
• 28. Zaki Ahmad - Recent Changes in the Arab-Islamist Movements
• 29. Ahmad al-Raysouni - The Moroccan Islamic Movement: Rising or Declining?
• 30. Shaykh Ali Sadr al-Din al-Bayanuni - The Syrian Muslim Brotherhood: Experiences and Prospect
• 31. Ishaq al-Farhan - Toward a Common Arab and Islamic Strategy for the Middle East
• 32. Yahia H. Zoubir - Islamist Political Parties in Contemporary Algeria
• 33. Salem Abdallah - The Islamic Movement in the Gulf Region
• 34. Tarik Hamdi Al-Azami - The Islamic Movement in Modern Iraq: The Sunnite Dimension
• 35. Malik Bennabi - The Ideational World and its Impressed and Expressed Ideas
• List of Contributors
• Bibliography