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Translation of al-Hukūmah al-Islāmīyah. ; Includes index. ; Mode of access: Internet.

This book underlines the mutability of Islamic law and attempts to relate its substantive and institutional varieties and transformations to social, political, economic and other historical circumstances. The studies in the book range from discussion of the received wisdom in Islamic law to studies of legal institutions and the theoretical means employed by Islamic law for the accommodation of changing historical circumstances.First published in 1988

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- CONTENTS -- Introduction: Wanted Dead -- Chapter 1: An Odd Couple? Fascism and Islamism in Recent History -- Chapter 2: Reformists or Fascist Islamists? The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt -- Chapter 3: Islamic Fascism's Historic Roots from Abraham to Sayyid Qutb -- Chapter 4: From My Struggle (Mein Kampf) to Our Struggle-Arabia and Anti-Semitism -- Chapter 5: From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg-Cultural Monopoly and the Dictatorship of Islam -- Chapter 6: "Heil Osama!"-Failed States and Successful Terrorists -- Chapter 7: Pornotopia-Jihad and the Promise of Paradise -- Chapter 8: Islamic Bombs and Shiite Fascism -- Chapter 9: Unbelievers on the March-Meet Five Atheists from the Islamic World -- Chapter 10: Salafists, Jihadists, and Islamic Fascism in Europe -- Chapter 11: Polarization and Social Cleansing-What Thilo Sarrazin and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Have in Common -- Chapter 12: Mapping the Terrain of Terror-Islamism, Islam, and the Islamic State -- Chapter 13: Charlie Hebdo and Islam's Outrage Industry -- Afterword: Islamism and the Endgame -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.

This article discusses the nature of Islamic terrorism, particularly the ways in which this terrorism differs from other sorts of terrorism, and particularly in relation to al-Qaeda and other fundamentalist Islamic terrorist groups, to acts of terrorism such as the attacks of September 11, 2001, and to the responses to those attacks as exemplified by the American "war on terrorism" since those attacks. It is argued that Islamic terrorism is a new sort, and that the differences between it and other sorts of terrorism include the fact that it is a global or international sort of terrorism rather than one aimed at ridding a particular land of a particular occupier; the appearance of a new type of war, namely "asymmetrical war" in which one side, that of the terrorists, has no significant military force at its disposal; and that it is a particularly frightening brand of terrorism due to its terrorists aspirations of martyrdom combined with the availability of a wide array of modern weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear, chemical, and biological weaponry. The nature of Islam and the words of the Koran are considered in relationship to the aims and character of this new form of terrorism. T. K. Brown

'Islamic Fundamentalism' by Lawrence Davidson is reviewed.