What Is Moderate Islam?

Buch | Hardcover

252 Seiten

2017
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-3741-4 (ISBN)

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Radical Islam is a major affliction of the contemporary world. Each year, radical Islamists carry out terrorist attacks that result in a massive death toll, almost all involving noncombatants and innocents. Estimates of how many Muslims could be considered followers of radical Islam vary widely, and there are few guides to help determine moderates versus radicals. Observers often sit at the extremes, either seeing all Muslims as open or closeted jihadis or recoiling from any attempt to link Islam with international terror. Both positions are overly simplistic, and the lack of rational principles to absolve the innocent and identify the accomplices of terror has led to governments and individuals mistakenly accepting jihadis as moderate. What is Moderate Islam? brings together an array of scholars—Muslims and non-Muslims—to provide this missing insight. This wide-ranging collection examines the relationship among Islam, civil society, and the state. The contributors—including both Muslims and non-Muslims—investigate how radical Islamists can be distinguished from moderate Muslims, analyze the potential for moderate Islamic governance, and challenge monolithic conceptions of Islam.

Richard L. Benkin received a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and is author of A Quiet Case of Ethnic Cleansing: The Murder of Bangladesh's Hindus.

Introduction: Who is a Moderate Muslim? Richard L. Benkin
Chapter 1: Smoking out Islamists, Daniel Pipes
Chapter 2: Islamist Extremism: Threat to World Peace, Kulbhushan Warikoo
Chapter 3: Wither Moderate Islam: Malaysian Style, Sunil Kukreja
Chapter 4: Is There a Non-Radical Islam?, Naseer Dashti
Chapter 5: An Islam That Rejects Islamists: The Case of the Baloch, Meerain Baloch
Chapter 6: The Debate about Radical versus Non-Radical Islam, Amitabh Tripathi
Chapter 7: Moderate Islam Is an Illusion—at Least for Now, Umar Duad Khattak
Chapter 8: Being Pakhtun: Interview with a Muslim Female Living in Exile, Richard L. Benkin and Anonymous
Chapter 9: Balochistan to the Road of Independence, Aziz Baloch
Chapter 10: South Asian Muslim Attitudes towards Jews, Israel, and Zionism, Navras Jaat Aafreedi
Chapter 11: The Myth of Bangladesh as a Moderate Muslim Nation, Richard L. Benkin

Erscheinungsdatum	22.04.2017
Co-Autor	Navras Jaat Aafreedi, a Pashtun Muslim woman Anonymous Anonymous, Aziz Baloch, Meerain Baloch
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	159 x 239 mm
Gewicht	494 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4985-3741-3 / 1498537413
ISBN-13	978-1-4985-3741-4 / 9781498537414
Zustand	Neuware