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This book is an accessible and comprehensive account of political Islam in the twenty-first century. Drawing on insights from comparative politics and Islamic studies, it explains the complex interaction between Islam, society, the state, and processes of globalization. The book demonstrates that political Islam, far from being a monolithic phenomenon, varies considerably from country to country depending on its position in relation to society, the state, and the broader political environment. The book provides a portrait of Islam and politics through a combination of detailed case studies.

Islam and Politics, Beverly Milton-Edwards, Cambridge: Polity
Press, 2004, pp. vii, 217.The Search for Arab Democracy: Discourses and
Counter-Discourses, Larbi Sadiki, New York: Columbia University
Press, 2004, pp. vii, 409These two books approach Middle Eastern Arab and Islamic politics from
a post-modern perspective informed by new European and American
scholarship on democracy and gender. Both authors tackle a range of issues
that should have been treated as discrete topics. Beverly Milton-Edwards
and Larbi Sadiki, the two authors, are trying to define Islam and politics
not only in terms of the world after 9/11, but also in terms of the
recurring and yet-to-be-solved issue of the role of Islam in the modern
world and its relationship to politics.