Nelly Lahoud completed her PhD in 2002 at the Australian National University. In 2003 she was a post-doctoral researcher at St John's College, University of Cambridge and now teaches political theory at Goucher College, USA. She has been awarded a Rockefeller Fellowship in Islamic Studies at the Library of Congress and is the co-editor of Islam in World Politics (RoutledgeCurzon, 2005).

• Preface  Introduction  1. The Islamists and the Apologist  2. The Intellectuals  3. Is Islamic Politics Islamic or Islamist?  4. Allegory and Orthodoxies  5. Farabi: On Religion and Philosophy  6. On Ibn Rushd's Liberalism  7. Conclusion

Nelly Lahoud completed her PhD in 2002 at the Australian National University. In 2003 she was a post-doctoral researcher at St John's College, University of Cambridge and now teaches political theory at Goucher College, USA. She has been awarded a Rockefeller Fellowship in Islamic Studies at the Library of Congress and is the co-editor of Islam in World Politics (RoutledgeCurzon, 2005).

• Preface  Introduction  1. The Islamists and the Apologist  2. The Intellectuals  3. Is Islamic Politics Islamic or Islamist?  4. Allegory and Orthodoxies  5. Farabi: On Religion and Philosophy  6. On Ibn Rushd's Liberalism  7. Conclusion

Nelly Lahoud completed her PhD in 2002 at the Australian National University. In 2003 she was a post-doctoral researcher at St John's College, University of Cambridge and now teaches political theory at Goucher College, USA. She has been awarded a Rockefeller Fellowship in Islamic Studies at the Library of Congress and is the co-editor of Islam in World Politics (RoutledgeCurzon, 2005).

• Preface  Introduction  1. The Islamists and the Apologist  2. The Intellectuals  3. Is Islamic Politics Islamic or Islamist?  4. Allegory and Orthodoxies  5. Farabi: On Religion and Philosophy  6. On Ibn Rushd's Liberalism  7. Conclusion