Political Islam
November 2002
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November Article Abstracts
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Title: America and the Islamic World
Author: P. W. Singer
"The underlying lesson of September 11 is that the United States can no longer defer the hard decisions. The overwhelming tragedy of the attacks has provided a mandate to change business as usual in American foreign policy and work on constructing a positive and enduring relationship between the United States and the Islamic world."
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Title: Jihad and Political Violence
Author: Roxanne L. Euben
"Jihad is neither simply a blind and bloody-minded scrabble for temporal power nor solely a door through which to pass into the hereafter. Rather it is a form of political action in which . . . the pursuit of immortality is inextricably linked to a profoundly this-worldly endeavor—the founding or re-creation of a just community on earth."
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Title: Activism and Reform in Islam
Author: Augustus Richard Norton
"Largely missing from American discussions about Islam is any appreciation of the debates within Islam and the widely variant interpretations by Muslims of their own religion. Beyond the core belief shared by all Muslims that there is only one God and Muhammad was the messenger of God, there are many 'Islams,' depending on locale, education, custom, politics, and personal attitudes."
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Title: Is There a Muslim Foreign Policy? The Case of the Caspian
Author: Brenda Shaffer
"If Islam is the defining force in a Muslim-populated state, then, like Samson, these states should be willing to make significant material sacrifices and take security risks to promote their religious beliefs. That has not been the case in the Muslim-dominated nations in the Caspian region."
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Title: Political Islam in Southeast Asia
Author: Scott B. MacDonald and Jonathan Lemco
"Significant differences exist between the Islamic revivalist movements looking to cultural and spiritual renewal that have swept Southeast Asia in recent years and transnational terrorist networks. Between these two extremes are political parties and groups seeking greater autonomy or secession of predominantly Islamic regions."or secession of predominantly Islamic regions."
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Title: The Month in Review
An international chronology of events in September, country by country, day by day.
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Title: ISLAM AND ISLAMISM
A map of Islam and Islamism.
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