Islamism in the Modern World

W. J. Berridge is Lecturer in History at Newcastle University, UK. She is the author of Hasan al-Turabi: Islamist Politics and Democracy in Sudan (2017) and Civil Uprisings in Modern Sudan (2015).

• PrefaceGlossary1. Introduction: Debates and Terminology2. Sufis, Scholars and Rebels: Classical Precedents for Contemporary Islamism3. The Assault on Tradition: Islamic Revivalism in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries4. Between Muslim Rationalism and European Colonialism: The Islamic Reformists5. The First Islamists: The Muslim Brotherhood, 1928-19546. Islamism’s Chief Theoretician: Mawdudi, South Asia and the Jama’at-i-Islami7. Marxist Borrowings: Islamism and the Left8. Hate-filled Extremist or Brutalized Intellectual? Sayyid Qutb9. The Rule of the Jurist: Khomeini and the 1979 Revolution10. Reformer, Radical or Maverick? Hasan al-Turabi and Islamism in Sudan11. Between Sharia, Custom and Patriarchy: Islamist Views of Women, Women as Islamists12. From Hizbullah to the Taliban: The Militant Wave13. The Extremist Fringe? Al-Qa’eda, ISIS and the Dawn of Global Jihadism14. Twenty-first Century Abduhs? Post-Islamism, Democracy and the Arab SpringNotesBibliographyIndex

This is a cogent, well-written text that not only introduces readers to the various forms of Islamism, but does so in way that pays attention to the interpretive frames put forward by scholars to make sense of the subject. The breadth of the book is stunning.