The most authoritative anthology of Islamist texts
This anthology of key primary texts provides an unmatched introduction to Islamist political thought from the early twentieth century to the present, and serves as an invaluable guide through the storm of polemic, fear, and confusion that swirls around Islamism today. Roxanne Euben and Muhammad Qasim Zaman gather a broad selection of texts from influential Islamist thinkers and place these figures and their writings in their multifaceted political and historical contexts. The selections presented here in English translation include writings of Ayatollah Khomeini, Usama bin Laden, Muslim Brotherhood founder Hasan al-Banna, and Moroccan Islamist leader Nadia Yassine, as well as the Hamas charter, an interview with a Taliban commander, and the final testament of 9/11 hijacker Muhammad Ata.
Illuminating the content and political appeal of Islamist thought, this anthology brings into sharp relief the commonalities in Islamist arguments about gender, democracy, and violence, but it also reveals significant political and theological disagreements among thinkers too often grouped together and dismissed as extremists or terrorists. No other anthology better illustrates the diversity of Islamist thought, the complexity of its intellectual and political contexts, or the variety of ways in which it relates to other intellectual and religious trends in the contemporary Muslim world.
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Princeton Readings in Islamist Thought presents representative writings of that radical minority of Muslims who reject political quietism, resist alien intrusions, and call for a divinely mandated state and society as set out in the Koran and as exemplified in the early Muslim community. -- "Foreign Affairs
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This book is an excellent primer on the key ideas and prominent thinkers that have shaped Islamism over the past century. Euben and Zaman provide the reader with both text and context by pairing selections from key Islamist works with their own incisive analysis. The result is a most useful and timely intellectual history of Islamism. -- Vali Nasr, author of "Forces of Fortune: The Rise of a New Muslim Middle Class and What it Means for Our World" One could find no better guide to this difficult, dangerous, and deceptive terrain. -- Anne Norton, University of Pennsylvania This splendid volume literally opens the door to Islamic political thought for Western scholars and teachers of politics. Brilliantly introduced and contextually framed by the editors, the selections represent remarkable geographic and historical range. We are all in the debt of Euben and Zaman for this immense labor and for the subtlety of their own thinking about politics, interpretation, violence, theory, gender, translation, and more. -- Wendy Brown, University of California, Berkeley This volume is a real contribution. The selection of texts is first-rate, and the biographical introductions to the individual texts are extremely impressive. -- Noah Feldman, author of "The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State" A superb volume. No other anthology on Islamism provides this depth or breadth. The biographical notes that precede each selection are exceptionally beneficial. These notes do more than just introduce the authors; they explore the background, networks, and issues that link each writer with broad patterns of Islamic political thought. -- Bruce Lawrence, editor of "Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama bin Laden"
Acknowledgments xi Permissions xiii A Note on Transliteration,
Spelling, and Other Conventions xvii
Chapter 1: Introduction 1 Part I:
Islamism: An Emergent Worldview
Chapter 2: Hasan al-Banna 49 Toward the
Light 56
Chapter 3: Sayyid Abu'l-A'la Mawdudi 79 The Islamic Law 86
Chapter 4: Sayyid Abu'l-Hasan'Ali Nadwi 107 Muslim Decadence and Revival 112
Chapter 5: Sayyid Qutb 129 Signposts along the Road 136 In the Shade of
the Qur'an 145 Part II: Remaking the Islamic State
Chapter 6:
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini 155 Islamic Government 163
Chapter 7: Muhammad
Baqir al-Sadr 181 The General Framework of the Islamic Economy 186
Chapter
8: Hasan al-Turabi 207 The Islamic State 213
Chapter 9: Yusuf al-Qaradawi
224 Islam and Democracy 230 Part III: Islamism and Gender
Chapter
10: Murtaza Mutahhari 249 The Human Status of Woman in the Qur'an 254
Chapter 11: Zaynab al-Ghazali 275 An Islamist Activist 283 From Days of My
Life, chapter 2 288
Chapter 12: Nadia Yassine 302 Modernity, Muslim Women,
and Politics in the Mediterranean 311 Part IV: Violence, Action, and
Jihad
Chapter 13: Muhammad'Abd al-Salam Faraj 321 The Neglected Duty
327
Chapter 14: ?Umar'Abd al-Rahman 344 The Present Rulers and Islam: Are
They Muslims or Not? 350
Chapter 15: Hamas 356 Charter of the Islamic
Resistance Movement (Hamas) of Palestine 364
Chapter 16: Muhammad Husayn
Fadlallah 387 Islamic Unity and Political Change 394 September 11th,
Terrorism, Islam, and the Intifada 403
Chapter 17: The Taliban 409 A New
Layeha for the Mujahidin 415 An Interview with a Taliban Commander 418
Part V: Globalizing Jihad
Chapter 18: Usama bin Laden 425 Declaration
of War against the Americans Occupying the Land of the Two Holy Places 436
Chapter 19: Muhammad'Ata al-Sayyid 460 Final Instructions 466 Glossary
473 Bibliography 479 Index 501
Roxanne L. Euben is the Ralph Emerson and Alice Freeman Palmer Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College. Muhammad Qasim Zaman is the Robert H. Niehaus '77 Professor of Near Eastern Studies and Religion at Princeton University.
