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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.
List of contents
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
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Edited by Richard L. Benkin - Contributions by Navras Jaat Aafreedi; Anonymous; Aziz Baloch; Meerain Baloch; Richard L. Benkin; Naseer Dashti; Umar Duad Khattak; Sunil Kukreja; Daniel Pipes; Amitabh Tripathi and Kulbhushan Warikoo
Summary
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.
