Key Islamic Political Thinkers

267 Pages·2018·0.81 MB·English

by  John L Esposito

KEY ISLAMIC POLITICAL THINKERS

KEY ISLAMIC
POLITICAL THINKERS
Edited by John L. Esposito

AND
Emad El-Din Shahin
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Esposito, John L., editor. | Shahin, Emad Eldin, 1957- editor.
Title: Key Islamic political thinkers / edited by John L. Esposito and Emad
El-Din Shahin.
Description: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018. | Includes index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018013406 (print) | LCCN 2018015122 (ebook) |
ISBN 9780190900366 (updf) | ISBN 9780190900373 (epub) | ISBN 9780190900359
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Subjects: LCSH: Political science-Islamic countries. | Political
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CONTENTS
Contributors vii
Note on Transliteration ix
Introduction 3
PART I
FOUNDERS OF POLITICAL ISLAM
Chapter 1: Hassan al-Banna 17
Ahmad Moussalli
Chapter 2: Mawlana Mawdudi 44
Joshua T. White and Niloufer Siddiqui
PART II
REVOLUTIONARY IDEOLOGUES
Chapter 3: Sayyid Qutb 67
Shahrough Akhavi
Contents
Chapter 4: Ali Shari`ati 85
Shahrough Akhavi
Chapter 5: Ayatollah Khomeini 104
Mojtaba Mahdavi
PART III
THE “INTELLECTUALS” OF POLITICAL ISLAM
Chapter 6: Hassan al-Turabi 141
Peter Woodward
Chapter 7: Rashid al-Ghannushi 159
Azzam Tamimi
Chapter 8: Yusuf al-Qaradawi 178
Bettina Gräf
Chapter 9: Mohammad Khatami 203
Mahmoud Sadri and Ahmad Sadri
Chapter 10: Abdolkarim Soroush 219
Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi
Index 245
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CONTRIBUTORS
Shahrough Akhavi is Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of
Political Science at the University of South Carolina.
John L. Esposito is Professor of Religion and International Affairs and Founding
Director of the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian
Understanding in the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown
University.
Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi is Professor of sociology and history at the University of
Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Bettina Gräf is a Researcher of Arabic and Islamic studies at Ludwig-Maximilians-
Universität in Munich.
Mojtaba Mahdavi is the Edmonton Council of Muslim Communities Chair in
Islamic Studies and Associate Professor of political science at the University
of Alberta.
Ahmad Moussalli is Professor of political studies at American University of Beirut.
Ahmad Sadri is Gorter Professor of Islamic World studies and Professor of Sociology
at Lake Forest College.
Mahmoud Sadri is Professor of sociology at the Federation of North Texas
Universities.
Emad El-Din Shahin is the Dean of the College of Islamic Studies, Hamad bin
Khalifa University, Qatar Foundation, and a Senior Fellow at Georgetown
University.
Niloufer Siddiqui is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Political Science at
the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, State University of New
York at Albany.
Contributors
Azzam Tamimi is an academic and political activist and the former director of the
Institute of Islamic Political Thought.
Joshua T. White is Associate Professor of the Practice of South Asia studies and
Senior Fellow at the Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asia Studies at the
Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins.
Peter Woodward is Professor of politics at the University of Reading.
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NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION
Due to variance in usage, rather than attempt to impose a style of
transliteration across the entire volume, we have allowed each
author to transliterate foreign-language terms according to his or
her stylistic preference.