TY - BOOK AU - Mériboute,Zidane TI - Islam's fateful path: the critical choices facing modern Muslims SN - 1845117409 (hbk.) AV - BP 161.3 .M48 2008 U1 - 297.09 22 PY - 2008/// CY - London, New York, New York PB - I.B. Tauris, Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan KW - Islam KW - Sufism N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-240) and index; Contents; Islam in the first generation : Muhammad's state from the ashes of pre-Islamic society -- The second generation of political Islam : Ibn Taymiyya and Ibn Abd al-Wahhab -- The third generation of Islam : the fathers of contemporary Islamism : Al-Banna, Qutb, Mawdudi -- The three generations of Islamists in their social dimension : the issue of apostasy -- The Islamic concept of the law of armed conflict : Muslim law in time of war -- The three generations of Islamism -- The first generation of rationalism and mysticism in the Muslim world -- The second and third generations of rationalists and new-Sufism : from Jamal Ad-Din Al-Afghani and Muhammad Abduh to Edward Said -- The Muslim mystics and rationalists : the social programme -- Nationalism, Sufism and religious fundamentalism : Egypt, Turkey and Algeria -- Africa : the struggle for peaceful Muslim spirituality ER -