This updated, 2nd edition of the Handbook book covers a range of political actors that use Islam to advance their cause. Capturing this diversity, this volume also sheds light on some of the less-known experiences from South East Asia to North Africa.

Shahram Akbarzadeh is Convenor of the Middle East Studies Forum at the Alfred Deakin Institute, Deakin University, Australia. He held a prestigious Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (2012-16) on the role of Islam in Iran's foreign policy making and recently completed a project on Proxy Wars in the Middle East and South Asia, sponsored by Carnegie Corporation New York.

1. Political Islam Under the Spotlight Shahram Akbarzadeh 2. Islamism beyond Politics: Sayyid Qutb's Journey to Radicalism John Calvert 3. Theocracy: From Wahhabism to Vilayat-e-Faqih Abdullah F. Alrebh 4. Political Islam and Animal Issues Emmanuel Karagiannis 5. The Muslim Brotherhood Barbara Zollner 6. Islamic Movements and Party Politics: Two Competing Visions in Morocco Esen Kirdi¿ 7. Hamas according to Hamas. A reading of its Document of General Principles Jean-François Legrain 8. Hezbollah: Between Nationalism and Islamism James Paterson and Benjamin MacQueen 9. Islamists, Muslim Democrats and Citizenship in Contemporary Indonesia Robert Hefner 10. Muslim Autonomy, Political Pragmatism, and the Challenge of Islamist Extremism in the Philippines Thomas M. McKenna 11. Islam and politics in the Maldives: rethinking political Islam Azim Zahir 12. Political Islam in Central Asia: from religious revival to securitization Hélène Thibault 13. Islamism in Turkey Gareth Jenkins 14. Islamist Populism in Turkey, Islamist Fatwas and State Transnationalism Ihsan Yilmaz 15. Facebook and Agency: Iranian Women's Resistance and Reaffirmation Shahin Gerami 16. Political Islamic Movements in South Asia: The Case of Jamaat-e-Islami M. A. Muqtedar Khan & Rifat Binte Lutful 17. An Existential Crisis: The Diminishing Influence of Religion in the New Saudi Arabia Eman Alhussein 18. Political Islam in Peace and War: The Case of Yemen Silvana Toska 19. The two sources of jihadism Bernard Rougier 20. Jihadi Salafism Mohammed M. Hafez 21. The ideology of al-Qaeda Christina Hellmich 22. The Islamic State's Ideological and Strategic World View Anthony Celso 23. Hizb-ut-Tahrir in the Age of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) Mohamed Nawab Bin Mohamed Osman 24. Militant goodness and totalized meanings: some interpretations of jihad among Tajiks Sophie Roche 25. Women in Jihad Seran de Leede 26. Politics for Jihadi Women: Lashker-e-Taiba and Jamaat ud Dawah as a case study Samina Yasmeen 27. Radicalisation and the challenge of Muslim integration in the European Union Valerie Amiraux and Pierre-Luc Beauchesne 28. UK Counter-Terrorism Strategy, Muslim Diaspora Communities and the 'Securitisation of Integration' Tahir Abbas 29. Revisiting S.P. Huntington's 'The Clash of Civilizations' thesis Howard V. Brasted, Imran Ahmed and Shafi Md. Mostofa