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