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This book examines how Islam is to be understood in relation to contemporary international relations. Working from the premiss that contemporary Islam cannot be adequately understood without understanding classical Islam, the book highlights salient characteristics in pan Islamic theory and its implications for the foreign policy of key states in the international pan-Islamic forum, the Organization of the Islamic Conference. In its political analysis, this book reconstructs western international relations theory to facilitate a better understanding of how ideas and identity influence foreign...

This is a timely study of the international relations of Islamic states, dealing both with the evolving theory of pan-Islamism from classical to post-caliphal times and the foreign-policy practice of contemporary states, especially Saudi Arabia, Iran and Pakistan, from the colonial period to the global aftermath of September 11. With a concise but analytic style, the book engages one-by-one with the questions of political theory, political geography and political sociology as they relate to international Islam. Its primary empirical investigation is centred on the Organization of the Islamic...