The borders of Islam : exploring Huntington?s faultlines, from Al-Andalus to the virtual ummah
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New Yorkb Columbia University Press ,
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Huntington and "Islam?s bloody borders" / Stig Jarle Hansen, Atle Mesّy, Tuncay Kardas
- Asia and the Middle East : borders at the centre of Islam? / Stig Jarle Hansen. Israel/Palestine : multiple agendas and division lines / Andrew Rigby and Jّrgen Johansen ; Lebanon : between "clash" and coexistence / Hicham Bou Nassif ; Afghanistan : "friction" between civilizations / Antonio Giustozzi ; Pakistan : have the chickens come home to roost? / Kavita Khory ; Indonesia : the radicalization of Islam / Kirsten Schulze ; Philippines : "civilizational" or colonial border? / Ben Reid
- Africa, the crescent of Islam / Stig Jarle Hansen. Nigeria : Islamist activism and religious conflicts / Sakah Mahmud ; Somalia : grievance, religion, clan, and profit / Stig Jarle Hansen ; Ethiopia : on the borders of Christianity / Terje طstebّ ; Sudan : trying to understand its "multiple marginality" / Ge´rard Prunier
- The "old" European border / Stig Jarle Hansen. Chechnya : how war makes jihad / James Hughes ; Turkey : secularism, Islam and the EU / Tuncay Kardas ; Bosnia : religion and identity / Svein Mّnnesland ; Spain : the Al Andalus legacy / Elena Arigita
- The new borders / Atle Mesّy. Britain : rejecting western modernity? / Dominique Thomas ; France : the clash of civilizations? / Farhad Khosrokhavar ; Scandinavia : alienation or integration? / Atle Mesّy and Stig Jarle Hansen ; The United States of America : American Muslim exceptionalism / Allen D. Hertzke ; A virtual border conflict / Stig Jarle Hansen and Atle Mesّy