Mustapha Kamal Pasha - Islam and International Relations

This is a major book by one of the most original thinkers of Islam and IR of our time. Islam and International Relations: Fractured Worlds is a brilliant contribution to critical and postcolonial IR which tackles ways to overcome hegemonic thinking and explores the fractured character of alternatives. Through a series of brilliant essays Mustapha Kamal Pasha grapples with the problem of locating Islam within IR, but also imagines what it means to disrupt the self-evident truths of a Western political imagination whose consistent supplication of capturing frames of Islamic alterity has evaded glimpses in Islamic thought of a possibility of a truly global world order. This book allows us genuine insights into the ways we imagine we can live, and fail to live, in fractured worlds and how we might imagine a world otherwise. It is quite simply a must-read.

Anna M. Agathangelou, York University, Canada

Islam and International Relations: Fractured Worlds reframes and radically disrupts perceived understanding of the nature and location of Islamic impulses in international relations. This collection of innovative essays written by Mustapha Kamal Pasha presents an alternative reading of contestation and entanglement between Islam and modernity.

Wide-ranging in scope, the volume illustrates the limits of Western political imagination, especially its liberal construction of presumed divergence between Islam and the West. Split into three parts, the essays cover Islamic exceptionalism, challenges and responses, and also look beyond Western international relations.

This volume will be of great interest to graduates and scholars of international relations, Islam, religion and politics, and political ideologies, globalization and democracy.

Mustapha Kamal Pasha is Chair in International Politics at Aberystwyth University, UK. He is the Editor of Globalization, Difference and Human Security (2013).

ISLAM AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Fractured Worlds

Mustapha Kamal Pasha

First published 2017

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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Names: Pasha, Mustapha Kamal, author.

Title: Islam and international relations : fractured worlds / Mustapha Kamal Pasha.

Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2017. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016056402 | ISBN 9781138644434 (hardback) | ISBN 9781138646049 (pbk.) | ISBN 9781315627786 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Islam and international relations. | Islamic countries--Foreign relations--Western countries. | Western countries--Foreign relations--Islamic countries.

Classification: LCC BP190.5.D56 P37 2017 | DDC 327.0917/67--dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016056402

ISBN: 978-1-138-64443-4 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-138-64604-9 (pbk)

ISBN: 978-1-315-62778-6 (ebk)

For Ritu, Ayesha and Tariq

This collection brings together my work on the confluence of Islam and international relations. Spread over several years, the various chapters engage common themes arising within different thinking contexts and with varied intent. I am immensely grateful to the publishers for granting permission to use the following copyright material:

Mustapha Kamal Pasha, Introduction

Copyright 2003 Carfax Publishing. The Introduction draws from Fractured Worlds: Islam, Identity, and International Relations, which was originally published in Global Society 17(2), 2003. Reprinted with permission from Taylor & Francis Group.

Mustapha Kamal Pasha, Exception/Exceptionalism

Copyright 2009. This chapter was originally published as Global Exception and Islamic Exceptionalism, in International Politics 46(5), 2009. Reprinted with permission from Palgrave Macmillan.

Mustapha Kamal Pasha, Liberalism, Islam, and International Relations

Copyright 2006. This chapter was originally published in Branwen Gruffydd Jones, Decolonizing International Relations. New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006. Reprinted with permission from Rowman & Littlefield.

Mustapha Kamal Pasha, Human Security and Islam

Copyright 2007. This chapter was originally published as Human Security, Securitization, and Islam, in Giorgio Shani, Makato Sato and Mustapha Kamal Pasha, eds, Protecting Human Security in a Post 9/11 World: Critical and Global Insights. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Reprinted with permission from Palgrave Macmillan.

Mustapha Kamal Pasha, Islam and the Postsecular

Copyright 2012. This chapter was originally published in The Review of International Studies 38(5), 2012. Reprinted with permission from Cambridge University Press.

Mustapha Kamal Pasha, Globalization and Cultural Conflicts

Copyright 2006. This chapter was originally published as Globalization, Cultural Conflicts and Islamic Resurgence, in B.N. Ghosh and Hilal M. Guven, eds, Globalization and the Third World: A Study of Negative Consequences. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. Reprinted with permission from Palgrave Macmillan.

Mustapha Kamal Pasha, Fate of Democracy

Copyright 2002. This chapter was originally published as Predatory Globalization and Democracy in the Islamic World, in Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 581(1), 2002. Reprinted with permission from Sage Publishers.

Mustapha Kamal Pasha, Leadership in Challenging Times

Copyright 2011. This chapter was originally published as Global Leadership and the Islamic World: Crisis, Contention, and Challenge, in Stephen Gill, ed., Global Crises and the Crisis of Global Leadership. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Reprinted with permission from Cambridge University Press.

Mustapha Kamal Pasha, Critical IR and Islam

Copyright 2005. This chapter was originally published as Islam, Soft Orientalism, and Hegemony: A Gramscian Rereading, in Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 8(4), 2005. Reprinted with permission from Taylor & Francis.

Mustapha Kamal Pasha, Postorientalism and Civilizational Discourse

Copyright 2007. This chapter was originally published as Civilizations, Postorientalism, and Islam, in Martin Hall and Patrick Thaddeus Jackson, eds, Civilizational Identity: The Production and Reproduction of Civilizations in International Relations. New York: Palgrave Macmillan USA, 2007. Reprinted with permission from Palgrave Macmillan USA.