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Islam In World Politics

ISLAM IN WORLD POLITICS

Over the past few decades, Islam has emerged as a political force on the international scene and Islam in World Politics analyses the factors leading to, and the implications of, this heightening of the profile of a religion.

 In the political sphere, there is a wide range of emphases both in which an Islamic society might be realised, and the ways in which such a society might conduct its relations with the non-Muslim world. Within these different emphases are some radical tendencies.

 A cluster of fringe groups, broadly referred to as Islamists, have appropriated the rhetoric of Islam, applying it to a promised ‘Islamic’ reality to be realised once ‘Islam is fully applied’.

The essays within Islam in World Politics are driven by the concern to address these issues.

Areas that are covered include an examination of the challenge of Islamism to the Muslim world, the use of Islam as a political tool on the international scene, its contributions to the theory and practice of global finance, its role in gender discourse, and its articulations in the Indian sub-continent, Southeast Asia, Central Asia, and the Arab world.