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The Iranian Revolution has catalysed the preconceptions holding sway in the Western World about the character of Islam and its politics, based as they are on a mixture of imagined cultural superiority and a latent fear of a resurgence similar to the Arab conquests of the seventh and eighth centuries of the long Ottoman domination of Eastern Europe.This book constitutes a counterweight to such monolithic perceptions of Islam. It surveys the nature of opinion and of government in the larger Muslim regions of the world, and the position of Muslims in states where they are not the dominant populat

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Foreword, by Olivier Roy -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction to the American Edition: A Euro-American Debate over Islam -- Introduction -- 1. Muslim Americans: A Religious Minority Like Any Other? -- 2. The Mosque Controversies: Moral Offense and Religious Liberty -- 3. The Anti-Sharia Movement -- 4. The Face of Anti-Muslim Populism -- 5. Forcing the First Amendment: American Exporting of Religious Freedom -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index

'Political Islam in Tunisia' uncovers the secret history of Tunisia's main Islamist movement, Ennahda, from its origins in the 1960s to the present.

Globalization; Turkey; foreign relations; Islam and politics

"This Paper provides a short, but comprehensive overview of the evolution of political Islam in Southeast Asia and its implications for the future of the region. It analyses the sources of religious radicalism and provides an up-to-date assessment of the regional terrorist and radical networks."--Jacket