Debating moderate Islam : the geopolitics of Islam and the West / edited by M.A. Muqtedar Khan.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Ch. 1. Debating Moderate Islam / M. A. Muqtedar Khan -- Ch. 2. Power or Ideology: What Islamists Choose Will Determine Their Future / Ariel Cohen -- Ch. 3. Moderate Muslims: A Mainstream of Modernists, Islamists, Conservatives, and Traditionalists / John L. Esposito -- Ch. 4. Freedom and Security: Necessary Conditions for Moderation / Graham E. Fuller -- Ch. 5. Moderate Islam: A Product of American Extremism / Abid Ullah Jan -- Ch. 6. Islamic Democracy and Moderate Muslims: The Straight Path Runs through the Middle / M. A. Muqtedar Khan -- Ch. 7. Blaming the United States, Israel, or Capitalism Is Not the Solution / Ariel Cohen -- Ch. 8. The Clash of Ignorances: The War on Terror Must Not Compromise Muslim Rights / John L. Esposito -- Ch. 9. The Erdogan Experiment in Turkey Is the Future / Graham E. Fuller -- Ch. 10. Though Muslims Exist Today, Islam Does Not / Abid Ullah jan -- Ch. 11. Moderate Muslims Are the Key to the Future of Islam and American-Muslim Relations / M. A. Muqtedar Khan -- Ch. 12. In God We Trust: The Prospects for the Future of Islam and the West Are Positive / Feisal Abdul Rauf -- Ch. 13. Liberal Islam versus Moderate Islam: Elusive Moderates and the Siege Mentality / Ali A. Mazrui -- Ch. 14. Reflections on Ijtihad and Moderate Islam / Louay Safi -- Ch. 15. Culture Talk: Six Debates That Shape the Discourse on "Good" Muslims / Mahmood Mamdani -- Ch. 16. The Transformation of a Turkish Islamic Movement: From Identity Politics to Policy / M. Hakan Yavuz -- Ch. 17. Reflections on the Debate / Taha Jabir al-Alwani -- Ch. 18. Defining a Moderate / Kamran A. Bokhari and Farid Senzai -- Ch. 19. Accommodating "Moderation": A Return to Authenticity or Recourse to Heresy? / Asma Afsaruddin.

"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 together prominent Muslim voices from the policy and academic communities to debate the nature of moderate Islam and what moderation means in both a theological and geopolitical sense."--BOOK JACKET.