The Genealogy of Terror: How to Distinguish Between Islam, Islamism and Islamist Extremism

ISBN-13: 9781138200463 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 240 str.

Matthew Wilkinson

Opis

In the context of political upheaval, terrorist violence and theological-legal confusion in the Muslim-majority world, that impacts upon the whole world, there is an urgent need for a clear philosophical-legal differentiation of different types of religious-legal phenomena that all have an Islamic complexion. This book draws on critical realism in order to set out a typology and analytical framework to enable distinctions to be made between phenomena which all have an Islamic complexion and yet are philosophically, theologically and legally different, namely: traditional Islam, political Islamism and violent Islamist Extremism. Matthew Wilkinson explores the differences in beliefs and religious legal practices manifested by the different phenomena before going on to look at how this typology relates to terrorist activity and legislation. The book also considers the legal-philosophical implications of bringing to justice Muslims who claim not to accept the grounds of justice in non-Muslim courts through an analysis of the relationship between the principles of national and international law and the objectives of Islamic law (maqasid ash-sharia'). The book is aimed at non-Muslim professionals and teachers in Muslim-minority settings who are required to understand different types of phenomena that all have an Islamic complexion for the conduct of their professional duties as well as scholars and researchers in law and religious studies.

Spis treści

1: Why this book is needed; 2: The Roots of Islam, Islamism and Islamist Extremism: the historical fault-lines of Islam; 3: The Worldviews of Islam, Islamism and Islamist Extremism; 4: Basic Beliefs, Practices and Characteristic Themes of Islam, Islamism and Islamist Extremism; 5: The People, Texts and Contexts of Mainstream Islam; 6: The People, Texts and Contexts of Ideological Islamism; 7: The Genealogy of Terror: the People, Texts and Contexts of Violent Islamist Extremism; 8: A Second Age of Extremes or a Second Age of Enlightenment?

O autorze

Matthew L. N. Wilkinson is Senior Research Fellow at SOAS, University of London, and Associate Research Fellow of the McDonald Centre for Theology, Ethics and Public Life at the University of Oxford. He is Principal Investigator of Understanding Conversion to Islam in Prison programme, which researches the causes and consequences of conversion to Islam in prison and how inmates can derive rehabilitative benefit, and avoid any danger, from this religious choice. He has acted as an Expert Witness in Islamic Theology and Law in 27 counter-terrorism trials. His previous book, A Fresh Look at Islam in a Multi-Faith World: A philosophy for success through education (Routledge, 2015), was awarded the Cheryl Frank Memorial Prize (2014) as the most "creative and innovative" work of critical realist philosophy.