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Acknowledgements

1 Analysing and theorizing Islam and IR: non-Western international relations and geocultural epistemologies

NASSEF MANABILANG ADIONG, RAFFAELE MAURIELLO AND DEINA ABDELKADER

2 The Khamenei Doctrine: Iran’s leader on diplomacy, foreign policy and international relations

SEYED MOHAMMAD MARANDI AND RAFFAELE MAURIELLO

3 The Arab right to difference: Taha Abderrahmane’s concept of the awakened youth and the formation of modern Arab Nationhood

MOHAMMED HASHAS

4 Reconciling Islam and pacifism: a traditionalist approach

MUHAMMAD HANIFF HASSAN

5 Constructivism in the Islamic approach to International Relations: Davutoğlu and Qutb as case studies

SHAIMAA MAGUED

6 Beyond terrorism and disorder: assessing Islamist constructions of world order

HANNA PFEIFER

7 Struggling for post-secular hegemony: causal explanations for religious discrimination in the Islamic Republic of Iran

FARHOOD BADRI

8 Belying the human web: Islam, international affairs and the danger of a single story

NICHOLAS P. ROBERTS

9 Foreign policies of political Islam movements: of the use and reconstruction of an ideological reference

MOHAMED-ALI ADRAOUI

10 The geopolitics of the Wahhabi movement: from the “neglected duty” to Daesh

DEINA ABDELKADER

11 The Islamic State’s notion of “mobile” sovereignty/territoriality in a post-secular perspective

MARINA ELEFTHERIADOU AND SOTIRIS ROUSSOS

12 Towards an Islamic geopolitics: reconciling the Ummah and territoriality in contemporary International Relations

JASON E. STRAKES

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