Book Review Edited by Frederic Volpi: Political Islam: A Critical Reader

Political Islam, the book under review, contains eight sections; the first being introductory, the rest all with four articles each, under different themes, and captioned; Modern Understandings and Explanations of Islamism (section two), Political Islam, the State and Political Power (section three), Political Islam and Democracy (section four), Islamic Movements in Multicultural Settings (section five), Political Islam and Political Violence (section six), the Globalization of Islamism (section seven), and the Future Political Islam (section eight). The last article in section eight, which the editor has put in is The End of Islamism? Turkey’s Model, which speaks well of the tempo of the publication. It may be difficult to review all 29 articles in this book, nevertheless an effort shall be made to square up misconceptions about Islam, which seems taxing Western wits and intelligence, at the present. It may be noted at the outset that all the articles included in this book were already published earlier in different Journals, which have been republished under relevant sections.