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critique influence change

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About the Author

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Foreword by Hamid Dabashi

Preface to the critique influence change Edition

Notes

Acknowledgements

Preface to the Second Edition

Islamism, Terror of the World

The Islamist Impasse?

De-Centred West

Waiting for the Caliph

Islamism and Globalization

Islamism and Empire

Notes

Prologue

Besieging Vienna Again

Notes

1: Framin’ Fundamentalism

Theorizing Fundamentalism

Explaining ‘Islamic Fundamentalism’

Narrating Islamism and the Crisis of the Political Order

Notes

2: Thinking Islamism, (re-)Thinking Islam

Anti-Orientalism and Islam

The Matter of Islam

Islamism: Islam as a Master Signifier

Notes

3: Kemalism and the Politicization of Islam

The Institution of the Caliphate: Fixing Islam

Abolition and Reaction: Floating Islam

Modernizing Islam: Ataturk’s Way (1923–45)

The Impact of Kemalism

Availability and Hegemony

Conclusion

Notes

4: Islam, Modernity and the West

The Weakening of the Kemalist Hegemony

Modernity and Islamism

Modernity and the West: The West and the ‘Rest’.

Modernity: Anti-, Post-, Counter-

Islam and Postmodernity?

Decentring of the West and Islamism

Notes

5: Islamism and the Limits of the Invisible Empire

The Triumph of the West

Eurocentrism and Ethnocentrism

Eurocentrism and Particularities

Contested Genealogies

Conclusion

Notes

Epilogue: Islamism/Eurocentrism

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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