Debating the War of Ideas

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Approaching the War of Ideas....Pages 1-19
Jihadism’s War on Democracy....Pages 21-33
“Dangerous Concepts” and the Struggle Within: Reclaiming State and Politics from the Islamists....Pages 35-53
Sharing with Equals: Modernity, Fundamentalism, and the Future....Pages 55-65
Taqiyya: War and Deceit in Islam....Pages 67-81
Debates over Just War and Jihad: Ideas, Interpretations, and Implications across Cultures....Pages 83-99
The War of Ideas: The Role of the “Afterlife”....Pages 101-110
The Clash of Civilizations?....Pages 111-130
Debating Absolutism and Pluralism in Contemporary Islam....Pages 131-142
Democracy, Religion, and the War of Ideas....Pages 143-156
Inter-civilizational Conflict between Value Systems and Concepts of Order: Exploring the Islamic Humanist Potential for a Peace of Ideas....Pages 157-173
The War of Ideas as Therapy: Reflections on a Eureka Moment in the “War on Terror”....Pages 175-193
Waging Trans-epistemological Warfare....Pages 195-207
Counter-mdicalization and Europe’s New Security Dilemma....Pages 209-220
The Struggle for Islamism in the Levant: The Case of Northern Lebanon....Pages 221-237
Dissonance and Denial: U.S. Foreign Policy and the War of Ideas....Pages 239-253
Back Matter....Pages 255-264