PART ONE
Introduction
- Islam in the First Generation: Muhammad’s State from the Ashes of Pre-Islamic Society
- The Second Generation of Political Islam: Ibn Taymiyya and Ibn Abd al-Wahhab
- The Third Generation of Islam: The Fathers of Contemporary Islamism: Al-Banna, Qutb, Mawdudi
- The Three Generations of Islamists in Their Social Dimension: The Issue of Apostasy
- The Islamic Concept of the Law of Armed Conflict: Muslim Law in Time of War
- The Three Generations of Islamism
PART TWO
Introduction
- The First Generation of Rationalism and Mysticism in the Muslim World
- The Second and Third Generations of Rationalists and Neo-Sufism: From Jamal Ad-Din Al-Afghani and Muhammad Abduh to Edward Said
- The Muslim Mystics and Rationalists: The Social Programme
PART THREE
- Nationalism, Sufism and Religious Fundamentalism: Egypt, Turkey and Algeria
- Africa: The Struggle for Peaceful Muslim Spirituality
Epilogue
Notes
Index