Section 1 : Introduction : Critically studying political Islam. -- Section 2 : Modern understandings and explanations of Islamism. -- Section 3 : Political Islam, the state and political power. -- Section 4 : Political Islam and democracy. -- Section 5 : Islamist movements in multicultural settings. -- Section 6 : Political Islam and political violence. -- Section 7 : The globalization of Islamism. -- Section 8 : The future of political Islam.

1. Islam and politics