List of Contributors
Editor's Introduction
Part I: Toward a Theoretical Appreciation of Islamism in the Contemporary Arab World
1) Muhammad Sa‘id Ramadan al-Buti, Salafism is a Blessed Historical Phase Rather Than an Islamic Legal School;
2) Fathi Yakan, Toward a Unified and Universal Islamic Movement;
3) Ahmad Kamal Abu’l Majd, Towards a Modern Islamic Perspective Declaration of Principles;
4) Muhammad al-Ghazali, Women Between the People of Hadith and the People of Fiqh;
Part II: Islamism, Jihad, and Martyrdom
5) Abdullah Anas, The Birth of ‘Afghan-Arabs’: An Algerian Perspective;
6) Abdullah Azzam, What Jihad Has Taught Me!
7) Muhammad Sa‘id Ramadan al-Buti, Jihad in Islam: How to Understand and Practice it?
8) Sayyid Muhammad Hussain Fadlallah, Islam and the Question of Power;
Part III. Islamism and the Question of Israel/Palestine
9) Ismail R. Faruqi, Islam and Zionism;
10) Mustafa Abu Sway, From Basel to Oslo: Zionism and the Islamic Narrative;
11) Mohsen Saleh, Palestine/Lebanon], The Role of the Israeli Lobby;
Part IV: Contemporary Islamism: Trends and Self-Criticism
12) Abdul Qadir Awdah, Islam Between Ignorant Followers and Incapable Scholars;
13) Ramadan Abdallah Shallah, The Islamic Movement and the Contemporary Challenges;
14) Umar Abdel Rahman, On the Present Rulers in the Muslim World;
15) Sami al-Arian, The Islamic Movement and Contemporary Crises: An Assessment and Correction;
16) Rashid Ghannoushi, Islamic Movements: Self-Criticism and Reconsideration;
17) Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Islamic Awakening Between Rejection and Extremism;
18) Jamil Hamami, The Islamic Movement: Hopes and Aspirations;
Part V: Islamism, the West, the United States and 9/11
19) Abdel Wahab al-Masiri, Imperialism and the Contemporary Muslim world;
20) Ahmad Bin Yousuf, Islamists and the West: From Confrontation to Cooperation;
21) Munir Shafiq, Islam and the Challenges of Contemporary Decline;
22) Kamal Habib, Transformation of the Islamic Movement and the Current American Strategy;
23) Yasser Za‘atira, The United States and Islamism: Before and After 9/11;
24) Muhammad Hussain Fadlallah, Muslim Youth and the West: Between Original and Contemporary Values;
Part VI: Islamism in the Contemporary Arab World
25) Fahd al-Qahtani, Islam and Saudi Paganism;
26) Muhammad al-Masa‘ari, Conclusive Evidences for the Illegality of the Saudi State;
27) Abdel Qadim Zalloum, How to Revive Islamic Caliphate?
28) Zaki Ahmad, Recent Changes in the Arab-Islamist Movements;
29) Ahmad al-Raysouni, The Islamic Movement in Morocco: Resurgence or Decline?
30) Shaykh Ali al-Bayanuni, The Syrian Muslim Brotherhood;
31) Ishaq al-Farhan, The Future of Islamist Work: The Islamist Movement in the Context of International Transformations and the Gulf Crisis;
32) Yahia H. Zoubir, Islamist Political Parties in Contemporary Algeria;
33) Sami Abdallah, The Islamic Movement in the Gulf Region
34) Tarik Hamdi Al-Azami, The Islamic Movement in Modern Iraq, Sunni Dimension.
35) Malik Bennabi, The Ideational World and Its Impressed and Expressed Ideas;