In the Path of God: Islam and Political Power

373 pp. CONTENTS: Understanding Islam in Politics; Islamic Sacred Law and Politics; The Medieval Synthesis; Relations with Non Muslims; the Civilization of Islam; Encountering the West; Western Armies and Civilization; New Attitudes toward the Sacred Law; Responses to Western Political Ideologies; Muslim Anomie; Muslim Ambivalence; The Islamic Revival: A Survey of Countries; The Great Oil Boom; The Revival and Future Choices.