Islamic Political Radicalism

Professor Tahir Abbas FRSA is currently Senior Research Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute in London. He is author and editor of several books, including Islamic Radicalism and Multicultural Politics (2011).

• Notes on the Contributors; Preface and Acknowledgements; Part I – Definitions; 1. Introduction: Islamic Political Radicalism in Western Europe, Tahir Abbas; The Discourse of ‘Terrorism’ between Violence, Justice and International Order, Jørgen S. Nielsen; 3. A Clinical Psychology Perspective on Radical Islamic Youth, Edward J. Lifton; 4. The Scales for Defining Islamic Political Radicalism, Ismail Adam Patel; Part II – Islamic Political Radicalism in Europe; 5. Europe and Political Islam: Encounters of the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries, Sara Silvestri; 6. Anti-Semitism amongst Muslims, Haris Aziz; 7. The Growth of Islamic Radicalism in Eurasia, Galina M. Yemelianova; 8. Radical Islam in Europe: Misperceptions and Misconceptions, Alok Rashmi Mukhopadhyay; Part III – The British Context; 9. How the Zionist Colonisation of Palestine Radicalised British Muslims, Daud Abdullah; 10. From the Ethos of Justice to the Ideology of Justice: Understanding Radical Views of Scottish Muslims, Gabriele Marranci; 11. Islamic Political Radicalism in Britain: The Case of Hizb-ut-Tahrir, Sadek Hamid; 12. Islamic Political Radicalism in Britain: Muslim Men in Bradford, Marie Macey; 13. ‘Because I am Pakistani … and I am Muslim … I am Political’ – Gendering Political Radicalism: Young Femininities in Bradford, Gurchathen Sanghera and Suruchi Thapar-Björkert; 14. Disconnection and Exclusion: Pathways to Radicalisation?, Basia Spalek; 15. Transitional Religiosity Experiences: Contextual Disjuncture and Islamic Political Radicalism, Akil N. Awan; 16. An Assessment of Colonial Strategies of Resistance, Liminality and Herberg’s Thesis in the Rise of Radicalism among British South Asian Youth, Ron Geaves; Part IV – After 7/7; 17. Ruminations and Reflections on British Muslims and Islam Post-7/7, H. A. Hellyer; 18. Electronic Monitoring and the Creation of Control Orders for Terrorist Suspects in Britain, Mike Nellis; 19. British Islamic Political Radicalism, Salma Yaqoob; 20. Disengaging with Terrorism: The Internal Muslim Challenge in Deligitimising Radicalism as a Means of Tackling Extremism, Sayyed Nadeem Kazmi; Index.

This topical collection of articles by leading scholars confronts us with a complex and diverse post-modern phenomenon in the European context … it helps make sense of both the debates around the role of the media, Islamophobia, social and economic exclusion, crises of Muslim masculinity, gender and intergenerational conflicts, the impact of global political developments, and questions of identity in fuelling radical 'Islamism', and of the more urgent reflections on terrorism and violence post-7/7. Readers will be left in little doubt about the challenge that Islamic political radicalism poses in twenty-first century Europe to both Muslims and non-Muslims.