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Following the great fragmentation in the Arab world today, as well as the problematic de-colonization phase, it would be relevant to investigate whether Arab-Islamic Egyptian revivalism has been truly capable of shaping a counter-hegemonic narrative against Western colonialism and post-colonialism in the twentieth century. Can we consider Sayyid Qutb's political and religious analysis, as well as his formative background, a concrete counter-hegemonic narrative? Was the narrative of Rashid Rida and Hasan al-Banna solidly based on religious Islamic concepts and meanings? The main aim of this article is to reconsider the contemporary understanding of Islamic Egyptian thought in relation to Buruma and Margalit's proposed Occidentalism methodology, on the one hand, and the hegemonic–counter-hegemonic debate, on the other.

Intro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS -- INTRODUCTION. THE STRUGGLE TO DEFINE A NATION: RETHINKING RELIGIOUS NATIONALISM IN THE CONTEMPORARY ISLAMIC WORLD -- 1. RELIGIOUS NATIONALISM IN THE OFFICIAL CULTURE OF MULTI-CONFESSIONAL LEBANON -- 2. SYRIA'S LEBANONIZATION: AN HISTORICAL EXCURSUS WITHIN THE 'NON-EXISTENCE' OF SYRIAN NATIONAL IDENTITY -- 3. NATION-NARRATING MONARCHIES: THE RELIGIOUS 'SOFT POWER' OF THE MOROCCAN AND JORDAN KINGS -- 4. SAUDI NATIONAL IDENTITY: HISTORICAL AND IDEATIONAL DIMENSIONS -- 5. RELIGION AND NATIONALISM: PALESTINIAN CHRISTIANS AND RELIGIOUS LEADERSHIP IN THE MIDST OF THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT -- 6. 'UNDER THE SAME FLAG': THE COPTS OF EGYPT AND THE CHALLENGES OF NASSERIST NATIONALISM -- 7. THE LONER DESPERADO: OPPRESSION, NATIONALISM AND ISLAM IN OCCUPIED PALESTINE -- 8. SELF-SACRIFICE AND FORGIVENESS: RELIGION AND NATIONALISM IN THE NEW ISRAELI AND PALESTINIAN CINEMA -- 9. RELIGION AND NATION BUILDING IN TURKEY: THE ROLE OF INSTITUTIONALIZED RELIGION IN THE CASE OF DIYANET -- 10. JUNDALLAH AND RADICAL RELIGIOUS NATIONALISM -- 11. NATIONALISM AND ISLAMISM AS OPPOSING DETERMINANTS OF IRANIAN NATIONAL IDENTITY -- 12. EVOLVING FACE OF PAKISTAN'S RELIGIOUS NATIONALISM -- 13. THE LIMITS OF SECULAR NATIONALISM: REVISITING THE POLITICS OF ISLAM AND NATIONAL IDENTITY IN BANGLADESH -- 14. THE BROKEN MIRROR: HOW THE CONTEMPORARY JIHADIST NARRATIVE IS RE-SHAPING THE CLASSICAL DOCTRINE OF JIHAD -- 15. EMERGING TRENDS IN THE BROADER JIHADI GALAXY: BETWEEN RADICALIZATION AND NEW MODELS OF JIHADISM -- 16. CONCLUSION 1: FROM THE NAHDA TO NOWHERE? -- 17. CONCLUSION 2: DEMOCRACY, NATIONALISM AND RELIGION IN THE ARAB WORLD.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- 1. Introduction: Comparative Perspectives on Islamisation -- Part I Conversion and Islamisation: Theoretical Approaches -- 2. Global Patterns of Ruler Conversion to Islam and the Logic of Empirical Religiosity -- 3. Conversion out of Personal Principle: ʿAli b. Rabban al-Tabari (d. c. 860) and ʿAbdallah al-Tarjuman (d. c. 1430), Two Converts from Christianity to Islam -- 4. The Conversion Curve Revisited -- Part II The Early Islamic and Medieval Middle East -- 5. What Did Conversion to Islam Mean in Seventh-Century Arabia? -- 6. Zoroastrian Fire Temples and the Islamisation of Sacred Space in Early Islamic Iran -- 7. 'There Is No God But God': Islamisation and Religious Code-Switching, Eighth to Tenth Centuries -- 8. Islamisation in Medieval Anatolia -- 9. Islamisation in the Southern Levant after the End of Frankish Rule: Some General Considerations and a Short Case Study -- Part III The Muslim West -- 10. Conversion of the Berbers to Islam/Islamisation of the Berbers -- 11. The Islamisation of al-Andalus: Recent Studies and Debates -- Part IV Sub-Saharan Africa -- 12. The Oromo and the Historical Process of Islamisation in Ethiopia -- 13. The Archaeology of Islamisation in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Part V The Balkans -- 14. The Islamisation of Ottoman Bosnia: Myths and Matters -- 15. From Shahāda to 'Aqīda: Conversion to Islam, Catechisation and Sunnitisation in Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Rumeli -- Part VI Central Asia -- 16. Islamisation on the Iranian Periphery: Nasir-i Khusraw and Ismailism in Badakhshan -- 17. Khwaja Ahmad Yasavi as an Islamising Saint: Rethinking the Role of Sufi s in the Islamisation of the Turks of Central Asia -- 18. The Role of the Domestic Sphere in the Islamisation of the Mongols -- Part VII South Asia -- 19. Reconsidering 'Conversion to Islam' in Indian History -- 20. Civilising the Savage: Myth, History and Persianisation in the Early Delhi Courts of South Asia -- Part VIII Southeast Asia and the Far East -- 21. China and the Rise of Islam on Java -- 22. The Story of Yusuf and Indonesia's Islamisation: A Work of Literature Plus -- 23. Persian Kings, Arab Conquerors and Malay Islam: Comparative Perspectives on the Place of Muslim Epics in the Islamisation of the Chams -- 24. Islamisation and Sinicisation: Inversions, Reversions and Alternate Versions of Islam in China -- Index