Princeton Readings in Islamist Thought

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.

"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

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