This handbook offers a geographically comprehensive, in-depth analysis of the interaction of Islam and politics in the post-9/11 era, in an increasingly globalising world, and in an Arab world transitioning to democracy. It addresses significant questions and issues such as: What is the current state of Islam and politics? How and why has political Islam been relevant in recent years? What are the repercussions and policy implications of the increased role of Islamic movements? And where is political Islam heading?

Originally published: 2013.

Introduction / John L. Esposito and Emad El-Din Shahin ; Part I. Major themes. The Shari'ah / Khaled Abou El Fadl ; Salafiya, modernism, and revival / Abdullah Saeed ; Islamic reform between Islamic law and the nation-state / Sherman A. Jackson ; Political Islam and the state / John O. Voll ; Islam and democracy / Nader Hashemi ; The political economy of Islam and politics / Tarek Masoud ; Political Islam and gender / Margot Badran -- Part II. Islamic ideologues, activists, and intellectuals. Founders or trailblazers of political Islam. Hassan Al-Banna / Ahmad Moussalli ; Mawlana Mawdudi / Joshua T. White and Niloufer Siddiqui -- Revolutionary idelogues. Sayyid Qutb / Shahrough Akhavi ; ʻAli Shari'ati / Shahrough Akhavi ; Ayatollah Khomeini / Mojtaba Mahdavi -- The "intellectuals" of political Islam. Hasan al-Turabi / Peter Woodward ; Rashid al-Ghannushi / Azzam Tamimi ; Yusuf al-Qaradawi / Bettina Gräf ; Mohammad Khatami / Mahmoud Sadri and Ahmad Sadri ; Abdolkarim Soroush / Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi -- Part III. Islam and politics around the world. Islam and politics in North America / Abdullah A. Al-Arian ; Islam and politics in Europe / Sam Cherribi ; Islam and politics in the Middle East / Moataz A. Fattah ; Islam and politics in Central Asia / Shireen Hunter ; Islam and politics in South Asia / Irfan Ahmad ; Islam and politics in Southeast Asia / Fred R. von der Mehden ; Islam and politics in North Africa / Azzedine Layachi ; Islam and politics in Sub-Saharan Africa / Leonardo A. Villalón -- Part IV. The dynamics of Islam in politics. Political Islam in power. Iran's Islamic Republic / William O. Beeman ; Islam and power in Saudi Arabia / Natana J. Delong-Bas ; The AK Party in Turkey / Ibrahim Kalin ; Sudan : the insecurity of power and the revenge of the state / Abdelwahab el-Affendi ; Islam and the state in Afghanistan / M. Nazif Shahrani ; The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt / Tarek Masoud -- Islamic movements in the political process. Hamas in the Palestinian Territories / Beverley Milton-Edwards ; Hizbullah in Lebanon / Bassel F. Salloukh and Shoghig Mikaelian ; Islamic movements in Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia / Michael J. Willis ; The Islamic Action Front in Jordan / Shadi Hamid ; Nahdlatul Ulama in Indonesia / Andrée Feillard ; Jama'at-i-Islami in Pakistan / Kamran Bokhari ; Islamic movements in Malaysia / Fred R. von der Mehden -- Jihadi political Islam. Al-Jama'a al-Islamiya and the al-Jihad Group in Egypt / Nael Shama ; Jihadists in Iraq / David Romano ; Al-Qaida and its affiliates / Jason Burke.