What Is Moderate Islam?
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (254 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Smoking out Islamists via Extreme Vetting -- Chapter Two: Islamist Extremism -- Chapter Three: Wither Moderate Islam -- Chapter Four: Is There a Non-Radical Islam? -- Chapter Five: An Islam That Rejects Islamists -- Chapter Six: The Debate about Radical versus Non-Radical Islam -- Chapter Seven: Moderate Islam Is an Illusion-at Least for Now -- Chapter Eight: Being Pakhtun -- Chapter Nine: Balochistan to the Road of Independence -- Chapter Ten: South Asian Muslim Attitudes toward Jews, Israel and Zionism -- Chapter Eleven: The Myth of Bangladesh as a Moderate Muslim Nation -- References -- Index -- About the Contributors.
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.