The Contemporary Arab Reader on Political Islam

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.
Addressing the key issues such as human rights, civil society, secularism, globalisation and ummah, and the impact of the West on the modern Arab world, this is the perfect starting point for students and academics looking to understand 'Political Islam' in contemporary Arab and Muslim societies.
The contributors include such important Islamist thinkers and activists as Abdullah Azzam, central to the spread of Islamism in Afghanistan, Sayyid Muhammad Hussain Fadlallah, a major Shiite figure in contemporary Lebanon and Ahmad Bin Yousuf, a political advisor to Akram Haniyya in Gaza.

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