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Pathways to Contemporary Islam: New Trends in Critical Engagement highlights that the current tensions in Islam and the Muslim world are the result of historical dynamics as opposed to an alleged incompatibility between religious tradition and modernity. The emphasis on pathways indicates that critical engagement and contestation have always been intrinsic to the history of Islam. The aim of the book is to elaborate the contemporary pathways and analyse the trends that contest the Islamic intellectual tradition, the relationship between religion and politics, and the individual and collective practice of religion. The collection of essays analyses the current efforts of critical re-engagement with the Islamic intellectual tradition and underlines the historical diversity of Islamic orthodoxies that led to the establishment of various pathways in the practice and role of religion in Muslim societies.

Preface : between convivencia and malafollá : coexistence or exclusion? -- Introduction : Andalusian encounters and the politics of Islam -- Historical anxiety and everyday historiography -- Paradoxes of Muslim belonging and difference -- Muslim Disneyland and Moroccan danger zones : Islam, race, and space -- A reluctant convivencia : minority representation and unequal multiculturalism -- Embodied encounters : gender, Islam, and public space -- Conclusion : Granada moored and unmoored

Examines criticism of Clinton administration policy, and argues that there is no clear consensus among academics, "policy entrepreneurs", and practitioners on the issue of US response to the global resurgence of Islam

This text brings together two sets of articles and book chapters by the late author, an extraordinary scholar of Islam in South Asia. The first part of the volume examines Shia-Sunni relations in Pakistan, while the second concerns violent Islamism in the country, covering both the Talibanisation of the Pashtun belt and the jihadi dimension of South Asian Salafism. The work explores the many reasons why Pakistan has been the crucible of political Islam. It offers a historical view of this development, factoring in the impact of colonialism and conflict, including the Soviet-Afghan War and the post-9/11 Western military operations in Afghanistan.