Islam and International Relations (eBook)

Deina Abdelkader is Associate Professor at University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA, and the author of Social Justice in Islam (2000) and Islamic Activists: The Anti-Enlightenment Democrats (2011). Raffaele Mauriello is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Faculty of World Studies, University of Tehran, Iran. In 2013, he was awarded the prize for Book of the Year in Iran.Nassef Manabilang Adiong is the editor of International Relations and Islam: Diverse Perspectives (2013), and one of the founders of Co-IRIS (International Relations and Islamic Studies Research Cohort).

PART I: TOWARDS AN ISLAMIC CONTRIBUTION TO INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS THEORY: SETTING THE STAGE1. Fundamentals of Islam in International Relations; Ali Akbar Alikhani2. Islamic Norms and Values in International Relations and their Reinterpretation in AKP-Governed Turkey; Lili Yulyadi Arnakim3. Oppressors and Oppressed Reconsidered: A Shi'itologic Perspective on the Islamic Republic of Iran and Hezbollah's Outlook on International Relations; Raffaele Mauriello and Seyed Mohammad MarandiPART II: DIPLOMACY, JUSTICE, AND NEGOTIATIONS IN ISLAMIC THOUGHT4. Ibn Khaldûn's Historical Sociology and the Concept of Change in International Relations Theory; Faruk Yalvaç 5. From the Tripartite Division to Universal Humanism: An Alternative Islamic Global International Relations; Ahmed Al-Dawoody6. Democracy and Secularism: The Binary Divide between Faith and Reason; Deina AbdelkaderPART III: CONTEMPORARY MUSLIM INSIGHTS ON MUSLIM GOVERNANCE AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS7. 'The Parting of the Ways' – A Qutbian Approach to International Relations; Carimo Mohomed8. Constructing an Islamic Theory of IR: The Case of Y?suf al-Qara??w?, Ummah, Jih?d and the World; Rodolfo Ragionieri9: Malaysia's Islam Hadhari and the Role of the Nation-State in International Relations; Muhamad Ali