ABSTRACT

Islam and International Relations: Fractured Worlds reframes and radically disrupts perceived understanding of the nature and location of Islamic impulses in international relations. This collection of innovative essays written by Mustapha Kamal Pasha presents an alternative reading of contestation and entanglement between Islam and modernity.

Wide-ranging in scope, the volume illustrates the limits of Western political imagination, especially its liberal construction of presumed divergence between Islam and the West. Split into three parts, Pasha’s articles cover Islamic exceptionalism, challenges and responses, and also look beyond Western international relations.

This volume will be of great interest to graduates and scholars of international relations, Islam, religion and politics, and political ideologies, globalization and democracy.

part I|66 pages

Islamic exceptionalism

chapter 1|19 pages

Exception/exceptionalism

chapter 3|13 pages

Human security and Islam

chapter 4|17 pages

Islam and the postsecular

part II|40 pages

Challenge and response

chapter 5|14 pages

Globalization and cultural conflicts

chapter 6|10 pages

Fate of democracy

chapter 7|15 pages

Leadership in challenging times

part III|47 pages

Beyond Western IR

chapter 8|14 pages

Critical IR and Islam

chapter 10|13 pages

Ibn Khaldun and world order