PART ONE

Introduction

  • The Complexities of Contemporary Islam
  • Sufism
  • The Free Thinkers
  • Salafism
  • The Evangelical Christians
  • Global Religious Diplomacy
  • The Ideological and Material Poverty of Today’s Muslims
  1. Sufi Islam History
  • Sufism: definitions, history and key values
  • A definition of the word “Sufi”
  • The earliest Sufis
  • Purity (“safa)” and asceticism (“zuhd”) among the early Sufis
  • The historical emergence of the Sufi brotherhoods: Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani and the Qadiriyya
  • Innovation in Sufi thought: Al-Ghazali and Ibn Arabi
  • The personal Sufism of Abd al-Qadir Al-Jaza’iri: a Sufi political leader
  • Sufism In The World Today
  • The Sufi Brotherhoods
  • The resurgence of Sufism in the Turkic speaking world in Central Asia and in China
  • Turkish Sufism today: its practical role
  • Sufi Penetration in Central Asia and the Caucasus
  • The resurgence of Sufism in Central Asia and the Caucasus
  • The influence of Turkish-speaking Sufism in central and eastern Europe
  • China: the repercussions of Islam in Asia and the re-emergence of Sufi spirituality
  • Sufism in the Indian sub-continent: an uneven picture
  • Poetical Islam and Iranian mysticism
  • The return of Ni’matullahi Sufism to Iran
  • The Ismaili mysticism of the Aga Khan: a rational Islam
  • Ismaili doctrine: mystical and modern
  • Sufism Today In Egypt, The Maghreb And Europe
  • Attempts to revive Egyptian Sufism
  • The Maghreb recovers its old values
  • The historical roots of Maghrebi Sufism
  • Sheikh Tijani’s doctrine
  • The philosophy of non-violent resistance of Mauritanian and Sahelian Hamalism
  • The accretion of wealth by some Sufi families
  • Concluding remarks on Sufism in the Maghreb and the Sahel
  • Muslims in Europe: ideological diversity and the search for Sufism
  • The ideological diversity of Muslims in Europe
  • Islamic free thinkers in Europe
  • “Tajdid”: Muslim revivalism in Europe
  • European Salafism
  • European Sufism
  • The isolation and division of Muslims in Europe
  • The Political And Economic Role of The Sufi Orders In Africa
  • The “black Islam of the Sufi brotherhoods in Africa
  • Sufi Islam in West Africa: entrepreneurial Mouridism
  • The geography of Islam in East Africa and Sudan
  • Islam in Somalia
  • Al-Shabab’s teaching and ideology
  • The structure of al-Shabab
  • The Islah (Reform) Party
  • The Islamic Coalition: Majma al-Islam, led by Sheikh Sharif Muhideen
  • Ahl al-Sunna Wa-l-Jama’a
  • Islam in Sudan
  • The political and economic role of the principal Sufi orders

PART TWO

  1. Salafism And Fundamentalism
  • Salafist history and doctrine
  • Global Islamic preaching networks: new developments
  • The bedrock of militant global Islamism: the Muslim Brotherhood
  • The influence of the Muslim Brotherhood in the Arab world
  • The Muslim Brotherhood: Conclusion
  • “Hizb ut-Tahrir” and the restoration of the Caliphate
  • The Arab elite in Hizb ut-Tahrir
  • The doctrinal basis of “Hizb ut-Tahrir” 
  • Tablighi Jamaat : a worldwide organisation
  • The role of repentance (tawba) and the Tablighi rite of initiation.
  • Tablighi Jamaat: conclusions 
  • Some observations on the objectives of the global Islamic movement
  • Non-peaceful groups and the emergence of federal Al-Qaida:
  • Al-Qa’ida: the origins
  • The elements of federal Al-Qa’ida
  • The World-Wide Scope of Federal Al-Qa’ida (al-muttahida)
  • The theological diversity of Federal Al-Qa’ida’s and its self-promotion
  • Al-Qa’ida: echoes of the provisional IRA
  • Al-takfir wa-l-hijra (Jama’at al Muslimin) an expanding model of an alternative society
  • Conclusion

                                                          PART THREE

  1. Islam And The Global Reach Of Evangelical Christianity
  • Who are the Evangelicals? Where do they operate?
  • A historical summary
  • The origins of Evangelical fundamentalism in the United States and Europe.
  • The global ambitions of contemporary Evangelicalism
  • The Evangelical quest to rule the planet
  • The strategy for the conversion of Muslims and Jews
  • The Middle East
  • The conversion of the Jews, in Israel and the world at large
  • The Maghreb
  • Africa
  • Towards a puritan “Yalta”: Salafists and Evangelicals share the world
  • The Possibility Of Dialogue: Can There Be A New  Global Religious Diplomacy?
  • Key parameters for global religious diplomacy
  • Some lessons to be drawn from the practice of global religious diplomacy
  • Involve a wide spectrum of religious factions
  • Involve the “wise men”
  • Be aware of prejudice
  • Understanding structures: tribes and clans
  • Family, clan and tribe take precedence over the Islamic state
  • Muslim education
  • Global religious diplomacy: summing up

General Conclusion