Muqtedar Khan
Biographic Data
| ID | 6961897 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Muqtedar Khan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Muqtedar |
| FAMILY NAME | Khan |
| SIGNATURE | KHAN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Associate professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Delaware. He is also a fellow of the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding His website is ijtihad.org. |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6967-3946 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Post-Orientalism and Geopolitics
This article argues that a post-orientalist discourse has emerged over the past few decades to challenge the dominance of orientalism on Western foreign policy thinking towards Islam and the Muslim world. The paper examines the geostrategic thinking of Bernard Lewis, Edward Said, and John Esposito, and their impact on Western perceptions of Islam. The paper submits that while Edward Said exposed the prejudice inherent in orientalist thought, it w…
Political authority in Islam
Handbook on Islam and Economic Life is a unique study, one of the first of its kind to consider Islam within a broader economic sphere. Covering a wide breadth of topics and research, it explores how Islam impinges upon and seeks to shape major aspects of economic life including economic organisation, business and management, finance and investment, charity, mutuality and self-help, and government. It concludes by analysing the link between relig…
Islam, Democracy and Islamism After the Counterrevolution in Egypt
Debating Moderate Islam
After 9/11, many Americans took the view that the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were the leading edge of a new war: Islam versus the West. Yet the attacks were also part of the current struggle within Islam between fundamentalist and moderate approaches and were staged for maximum effect in the Muslim world.This book is based on a special-topic issue of the American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences (Fall 2005), and brings t…
Debating Moderate Islam
Since the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, there have beenseveral conversations about the different interpretations of Islam, its impacton Muslim politics, and the relationship between Islam and the West. Thisdebate gained renewed vigor after the London attacks on July 7 and 21,2005. Scholars and policymakers agree that a politically angry and intellectuallynarrow interpretation of Islam – loosely referred to as militant orradica…
Prospects for Muslim Democracy
Prospects for Muslim Democracy
Debating Moderate Islam
Since the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, there have beenseveral conversations about the different interpretations of Islam, its impacton Muslim politics, and the relationship between Islam and the West. Thisdebate gained renewed vigor after the London attacks on July 7 and 21,2005. Scholars and policymakers agree that a politically angry and intellectuallynarrow interpretation of Islam – loosely referred to as militant orradica…
Debating Moderate Islam
After 9/11, many Americans took the view that the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were the leading edge of a new war: Islam versus the West. Yet the attacks were also part of the current struggle within Islam between fundamentalist and moderate approaches and were staged for maximum effect in the Muslim world.This book is based on a special-topic issue of the American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences (Fall 2005), and brings t…
Political authority in Islam
Handbook on Islam and Economic Life is a unique study, one of the first of its kind to consider Islam within a broader economic sphere. Covering a wide breadth of topics and research, it explores how Islam impinges upon and seeks to shape major aspects of economic life including economic organisation, business and management, finance and investment, charity, mutuality and self-help, and government. It concludes by analysing the link between relig…
Islam, Democracy and Islamism After the Counterrevolution in Egypt
Post-Orientalism and Geopolitics
This article argues that a post-orientalist discourse has emerged over the past few decades to challenge the dominance of orientalism on Western foreign policy thinking towards Islam and the Muslim world. The paper examines the geostrategic thinking of Bernard Lewis, Edward Said, and John Esposito, and their impact on Western perceptions of Islam. The paper submits that while Edward Said exposed the prejudice inherent in orientalist thought, it w…
Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Islam (5 works) · Islamic Studies and History (4 works) · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence (4 works) · Education and Islamic Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works)