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List of contents
1: Why this book is needed; 2: The Roots of Islam, Islamism and Islamist Extremism: the historical fault-lines of Islam; 3: The Worldviews of Islam, Islamism and Islamist Extremism; 4: Basic Beliefs, Practices and Characteristic Themes of Islam, Islamism and Islamist Extremism; 5: The People, Texts and Contexts of Mainstream Islam; 6: The People, Texts and Contexts of Ideological Islamism; 7: The Genealogy of Terror: the People, Texts and Contexts of Violent Islamist Extremism; 8: A Second Age of Extremes or a Second Age of Enlightenment?
About the author
Matthew L. N. Wilkinson is Senior Research Fellow at SOAS, University of London, and Associate Research Fellow of the McDonald Centre for Theology, Ethics and Public Life at the University of Oxford. He is Principal Investigator of Understanding Conversion to Islam in Prison programme, which researches the causes and consequences of conversion to Islam in prison and how inmates can derive rehabilitative benefit, and avoid any danger, from this religious choice. He has acted as an Expert Witness in Islamic Theology and Law in 27 counter-terrorism trials. His previous book, A Fresh Look at Islam in a Multi-Faith World: A philosophy for success through education (Routledge, 2015), was awarded the Cheryl Frank Memorial Prize (2014) as the most "creative and innovative" work of critical realist philosophy.
Summary
This book draws on critical realism in order to set out a typology and analytical framework to enable distinctions to be made between phenomena which all have an Islamic complexion and yet are philosophically, theologically and legally different.
