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The Islamic term fatwa became known in the West after Ayatollah Khomeini's death sentence in 1989 on Salman Rushdie, the author of ¿The Satanic Verses'. Mehdi Mozaffari reviews the history of the fatwa from its origins and its evolution to the present day. He looks at the general use of fatwa in relation to Islamic rules and traces the evolution of shi'ite Islam from a pacifist and quietist movement into a militant force. In comparing Shi'a vi...

What exactly does Islamism mean? And what explains its violent expansion? Are there similarities between Islamism and classical totalitarian regimes and ideologies? Will it fail, or can it adapt to changing realities? Addressing these questions, Mehdi Mozaffari provides an important new framework for understanding the full impact of Islamism in the Middle East and beyond.

What exactly does Islamism mean? And what explains its violent expansion? Are there similarities between Islamism and classical totalitarian regimes and ideologies? Will it fail, or can it adapt to changing realities? Addressing these questions, Mehdi Mozaffari provides an important new framework for understanding the full impact of Islamism in the Middle East and beyond.

This book is the first attempt to provide a global view on the phenomenon of Islamism from its beginning in Medina under the Prophet Muhammad to its new forms with the 'Caliphate' of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and the 'Imamate' of Ayatollah Khamenei. It demonstrates that all Islamists: Shia, Sunni, Salafi or Jihadi are aiming the same goal: The conquest of the world and the restauration of the Islamist World Empire by all means. Is this only a utopi...

This collection with its special focus on Central Asia, the Causuces and Russia combines the theoretical approach with analytical and empirical approaches. The book is the first to apply concepts like security complexes, alliances, regionalism and integration on the Commonwealth of Independent States. It offers analyses and evaluations of foreign policy and security policy in CIS' states, and of the regional powers, the question of oil and gas...

This text looks at the future orientation of the People's Liberation Army. It covers military leadership, readiness and expenditure, defense doctrine, high-tech warfare acquisitions, the scientific and technological base for defense procurement and China's security concerns in Northeast Asia.

Globalization and Civilizations challenges established assumptions about the nature of civilizations and the supposed inevitability of the conflict between the Islamic and Western worlds. Uniquely, this edited book critically interrogates the concept of 'civilization' by asking whether it is still valid in the globalized world economy of the twenty-first century. The first half of the book provides an historical and theoretical context to unde...