Islamic Political Radicalism

Part I -- definitions 1. Tahir Abbas, Introduction - Islamic political radicalism in Western Europe 2. Jorgen Nielsen, The discourse of 'terrorism' between violence, justice and international order 3. Edward J. Lifton, A clinical psychology perspective on radical Islamic youth 4. Ismail Adam Patel, The Scales for Defining Islamic Political Radicalism Part II -- Islamic Political Radicalism in Europe 5. Sara Silvestri, Europe and Political Islam: Encounters of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries 6. Haris Aziz, Anti-Semitism amongst Muslims 7. Galina Yemelianova, The growth of Islamic radicalism in Muslim Eurasia 8. Alok Mukhopadhyay, Radical Islam in Europe: misperceptions and misconceptions Part III -- The British Context 9. Daud Abdullah, How the Zionist colonization of Palestine has radicalized British Muslims 10. Gabriele Marranci, From the ethos of justice to the ideology of justice: Understanding the radical view of Scottish muslims 11. Sadek Hamid, Islamic political radicalism in Britain: the case of Hizb ut Tahrir 12. Marie Macey, Islamic political radicalism in Britain: Muslim men in Bradford 13. Gurchathen Sanghera and Dr Suruchi Thapar-Bjorkert, 'Because I am Pakistani!and I am Muslim!I am Political' - Gendering Political Radicalism: Young Femininities in Bradford 14. Basia Spalek, Disconnection and exclusion: pathways to radicalisation 15. Akil N Awan, Transitional religiosity experiences: Contextual disjuncture and Islamic political radicalism 16. Ron Geaves, An assessment of colonial strategies of resistance, liminality and Herberg's thesis in the rise of radicalism and the phenomenon of the 'suicide bomber' in British South Asian Youth Part IV -- After 7/7 17. Hisham Hellyer, Tackling extremism and radicalisation: reflections and ruminations on 7/7 18. Mike Nellis, Electronic monitoring and the creation of control orders for terrorist suspects in England and Wales 19. Salma

Tahir Abbas

This topical collection of articles by leading scholars confronts us with a complex and diverse post-modern phenomenon in the European context ! it helps make sense of both the debates around the role of the media, Islamophobia, social and economic exclusion, crises of Muslim masculinity, gender and intergenerational conflicts, the impact of global political developments, and questions of identity in fuelling radical 'Islamism', and of the more urgent reflections on terrorism and violence post-7/7. Readers will be left in little doubt about the challenge that Islamic political radicalism poses in twenty-first century Europe to both Muslims and non-Muslims. -- Humayun Ansari, author of 'The Infidel Within': Muslims in Britain Since 1800 Tahir Abbas has put together a comprehensive examination of the roots -- political, social, cultural, and international -- of Islamic radicalism in Europe today. After the bombings in Madrid and London, there is an urgent need for an informed and probing account of why extremism has taken hold in certain quarters and how the vast majority of law-abiding Muslims are caught up in efforts to contain it. This work speaks directly to the concerns of scholars, journalists and policymakers and provides instructive and timely answers. -- James Piscatori, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies This topical collection of articles by leading scholars confronts us with a complex and diverse post-modern phenomenon in the European context ! it helps make sense of both the debates around the role of the media, Islamophobia, social and economic exclusion, crises of Muslim masculinity, gender and intergenerational conflicts, the impact of global political developments, and questions of identity in fuelling radical 'Islamism', and of the more urgent reflections on terrorism and violence post-7/7. Readers will be left in little doubt about the challenge that Islamic political radicalism poses in twenty-first century Europe to both Muslims and non-Muslims.