What is moderate Islam? /edited by Richard L. Benkin.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, (c)2016.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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Contents:
Daniel Pipes -- Islamist extremism: threat to world peace / Kulbhushan Warikoo -- Wither moderate Islam: Malaysian style / Sunil Kukreja -- Is there a non-radical Islam? / Naseer Dashti -- An Islam that rejects Islamists: the case of the Baloch / Meerain Baloch -- The debate about radical versus non-radical Islam / Amitabh Tripathi -- Moderate Islam is an illusion; at least for now / Umar Duad Khattak -- Being Pakhtun: interview with a Muslim female living in exile / Richard L. Benkin and Anonymous -- Balochistan to the road of independence / Aziz Baloch -- South Asian Muslim attitudes towards Jews, Israel, and Zionism / Navras Jaat Aafreedi -- The myth of Bangladesh as a moderate Muslim nation / Richard L. Benkin.
Subject: This wide-ranging collection examines the relationship among Islam, civil society, and the state. The contributors-including both Muslims and non-Muslims-investigate how radical Islamists can be distinguished from moderate Muslims, analyze the potential for moderate Islamic governance, and challenge monolithic conceptions of Islam.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Smoking out Islamists / Daniel Pipes -- Islamist extremism: threat to world peace / Kulbhushan Warikoo -- Wither moderate Islam: Malaysian style / Sunil Kukreja -- Is there a non-radical Islam? / Naseer Dashti -- An Islam that rejects Islamists: the case of the Baloch / Meerain Baloch -- The debate about radical versus non-radical Islam / Amitabh Tripathi -- Moderate Islam is an illusion; at least for now / Umar Duad Khattak -- Being Pakhtun: interview with a Muslim female living in exile / Richard L. Benkin and Anonymous -- Balochistan to the road of independence / Aziz Baloch -- South Asian Muslim attitudes towards Jews, Israel, and Zionism / Navras Jaat Aafreedi -- The myth of Bangladesh as a moderate Muslim nation / Richard L. Benkin.

This wide-ranging collection examines the relationship among Islam, civil society, and the state. The contributors-including both Muslims and non-Muslims-investigate how radical Islamists can be distinguished from moderate Muslims, analyze the potential for moderate Islamic governance, and challenge monolithic conceptions of Islam.

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