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Table of Contents
In the Path of God: Islam and Political Power
| Preface to the Transaction Edition | ix |
| Acknowledgments | xv |
| Corrections to the Text | xvii |
| Understanding Islam in Politics | 3 |
| Impediments to a Westerner's Understanding | 4 |
| This Book | 22 |
| PART I THE PREMODERN LEGACY | |
| Islamic Sacred Law and Politics | 29 |
| Sacred Law in Three Monotheisms | 30 |
| Public Ideals in Islamic Sacred Law | 40 |
| The Medieval Synthesis | 48 |
| Non-Implementation of the Law's Public Ideals | 49 |
| Withdrawal from Power | 57 |
| Occasions for Action | 63 |
| Relations with Non-Muslims | 70 |
| Believers Ascendant | 70 |
| Disdain for West Europe | 76 |
| Christian Hostility | 82 |
| Conclusion: The Civilization of Islam | 89 |
| PART II ENCOUNTERING THE WEST | |
| Western Armies and Civilization | 97 |
| Europe's Supremacy | 98 |
| Worldly Failure and Its Effects | 101 |
| Modernization and Westernization | 105 |
| New Attitudes toward the Sacred Law | 114 |
| Reformism: Westernizing the Sacred Law | 115 |
| Secularism: Withdrawing the Sacred Law from Politics | 120 |
| Fundamentalism: Making the Sacred Law a Political Ideology | 124 |
| Responses to Western Political Ideologies | 143 |
| Participating in Politics | 144 |
| Defining Borders and Loyalties | 148 |
| Relations with Non-Muslim Governments | 156 |
| Muslim Anomie | 168 |
| Hostility with Europe | 169 |
| Male-Female Relations | 176 |
| Avoiding Reality | 182 |
| The Travails of Modern Islam | 187 |
| Conclusion: Muslim Ambivalence | 195 |
| PART III ISLAM IN CURRENT AFFAIRS | |
| The Islamic Revival: A Survey of Countries | 203 |
| Dominant Majorities: The Fundamentalist Surge | 204 |
| Moieties: A Greater Drive To Rule | 243 |
| Small Minorities: Increased Autonomist Demands | 256 |
| Characteristics of the Revival | 278 |
| The Great Oil Boom | 281 |
| Setting the Stage | 282 |
| Oil and Islam: A Changed Psychology | 288 |
| Saudi and Libyan Networks | 297 |
| Iran: Disruption and Inspiration | 321 |
| Conclusion: The Revival and Future Choices | 331 |
| Appendix: Muslim Populations by Country | 337 |
| Glossary | 340 |
| Notes | 342 |
| Index | 363 |
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