Islamic Fundamentalism

Abdel Salam Sidahmed is visiting research associate, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Cambridge. Anoushiravan Ehteshami is reader in international relations and director of graduate studies at the Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, University of Durham. Abdel Salam Sidahmed is visiting research associate, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Cambridge. Anoushiravan Ehteshami is reader in international relations and director of graduate studies at the Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, University of Durham.

• Preface -- Note on Terminology and Transliteration -- Introduction -- General Framework and Themes -- The Political Discourse of Contemporary Islamist Movements -- Islamic State Theories and Contemporary Realities -- Islam and the Secular Logic of the State in the Middle East -- Pax Islamica: An Alternative New World Order? -- Case Studies -- The Roots and Future of Islamism in Algeria -- Egypt: The Islamists and the State Under Mubarak -- Climate of Change in Jordan’s Islamist Movement -- Islamic Governance in Post-Khomeini Iran -- Islamist Movements in Historical Palestine -- Sudan: Ideology and Pragmatism -- State and Islamism in Syria -- Islamism and Tribalism in Yemen -- Parallels -- Islamism in Algeria and Iran -- Women and Islamism: The Case of Rashid al-Ghannushi of Tunisia