Political Islam from Muhammad to Ahmadinejad : defenders, detractors, and definitions / Joseph Morrison Skelly, editor ; foreword by Bernard Lewis.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / Bernard Lewis -- Introduction -- Political Islam from Muhammad to Ahmadinejad / Joseph Morrison Skelly -- The origins of political Islam -- Balanced opposition : the tribal foundations of Arab Middle Eastern Islamic culture / Philip Carl Salzman -- Why did Muhammad attack the Byzantines? : a re-examination of Quran sura 30:1-2 / David Cook -- Challenging the Islamist politicization of Islam : the non-Islamic origins of Muslim political concepts / Sherko Kirmanj -- Interpreting political Islam -- War and peace : negotiating meaning in Islam / Robert P. Barnidge, Jr. -- The Quranic concept of war / Joseph C. Myers -- Jihad in Africa : past and present -- Mad mullahs and the pax Britannica : Islam as a factor in Somali resistance to British colonial rule / George L. Simpson, Jr. -- Jihadists and jurisprudents : the "revisions" literature of Sayyid Imam and Al-Gama ́a Al-Islamiyya / Daniel J. Lav -- Takfir as a tool for instigating Jihad among Muslims : the Ghanaian example / Mohammed Hafiz -- Political Islam in Iran, Iraq, and Palestine -- Reading Tehran in Washington : the problems of defining the fundamentalist regime in Iran and assessing the prospects for political change / Ofira Seliktar -- The modern impact of Mahdism and the case of Iraq / Timothy R. Furnish -- Palestinian precedents : the origins of Al-Qaeda's use of suicide terrorism and Istishhad / Benjamin T. Acosta -- Economic reform and reforming Ilam -- Economic justice in the Middle East : a bad idea, badly done / Patrick Clawson -- "For truth does not oppose truth" : the agreement of divine law and philosophy in Averroës' The book of the decisive treaties (Kitab Fa.sl al-Maqal) / Terence J. Kleven -- Hermeneutics and human rights : liberal democracy, Catholicism, and Islam / Edward T. Barrett.