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Political Islam

Political Islam

Author(s): Wayne Zaideman

Edition: 1

Copyright: 2024

Pages: 132

Edition: 1

Copyright: 2024

Pages: 200

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This book explains the difference between Islam, a respected religion, and Islamism which is a political ideology that uses its interpretation of Islam to give it legitimacy.

This book starts with the fundamentals of Islam the religion and shows how Islamism developed from Islam. The book goes into detail about political Islam, which is also referred to as Islamic Extremism or Radical Islam.

The book will distinguish between Institutional Islam which works within the political system and the extremists who use terrorism to achieve their goals. The tactics might be different, but the goals remain the same. The reader will also learn about the variety of Islamists, and Islamic strategies and tactics.

It discusses one of the chief Ideologists, Seyyid Qutb, martyrdom, differences between Sunni and Shi’a Muslims, the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, and Iran as an existential threat.

Finally, the book describes aspects of Arab-Muslim culture and tries to answer the questions: Is Islam compatible with Democracy? Is Islam the new totalitarianism? The differences between Islam and Judeophobia, and Islamism and anti-Semitism.

Wayne Zaideman

Dr. Wayne H. Zaideman is currently an adjunct professor, teaching political Islam at Florida State University.

As a special agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, he worked Middle East counterintelligence/counterterrorism cases. He was at FBI headquarters three times: as a supervisory special agent, as a unit chief, and as an assistant section chief. He also taught at the FBI Academy. In addition, he was Assistant Legal Attaché Tel Aviv (covering Israel, the Palestinian Authority, and Jordan), and Legal Attaché Amman (covering Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon). The Legal Attaché is the FBI director’s personal representative to foreign countries.

Following retirement from the FBI, he worked for MITRE Corporation, supporting the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). He later worked for Lockheed Martin Corporation supporting the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA).

Dr. Zaideman has a BA (English/communications) and a JD (law) from DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois, and an MA (Near Eastern studies) and a PhD (Near Eastern languages and literature) from New York University.

Dr. Zaideman is proficient in Persian (Farsi), Arabic, and Hebrew languages. He is also frequently called upon to participate on discussion panels in Washington, D.C. think tanks concerning Middle Eastern issues.

Dr. Zaideman also served as an adjunct fellow: an academic appointment at the Inter-University Center for Terrorism Studies, Washington, D.C.

This book explains the difference between Islam, a respected religion, and Islamism which is a political ideology that uses its interpretation of Islam to give it legitimacy.

This book starts with the fundamentals of Islam the religion and shows how Islamism developed from Islam. The book goes into detail about political Islam, which is also referred to as Islamic Extremism or Radical Islam.

The book will distinguish between Institutional Islam which works within the political system and the extremists who use terrorism to achieve their goals. The tactics might be different, but the goals remain the same. The reader will also learn about the variety of Islamists, and Islamic strategies and tactics.

It discusses one of the chief Ideologists, Seyyid Qutb, martyrdom, differences between Sunni and Shi’a Muslims, the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, and Iran as an existential threat.

Finally, the book describes aspects of Arab-Muslim culture and tries to answer the questions: Is Islam compatible with Democracy? Is Islam the new totalitarianism? The differences between Islam and Judeophobia, and Islamism and anti-Semitism.

Wayne Zaideman
Wayne Zaideman

Dr. Wayne H. Zaideman is currently an adjunct professor, teaching political Islam at Florida State University.

As a special agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, he worked Middle East counterintelligence/counterterrorism cases. He was at FBI headquarters three times: as a supervisory special agent, as a unit chief, and as an assistant section chief. He also taught at the FBI Academy. In addition, he was Assistant Legal Attaché Tel Aviv (covering Israel, the Palestinian Authority, and Jordan), and Legal Attaché Amman (covering Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon). The Legal Attaché is the FBI director’s personal representative to foreign countries.

Following retirement from the FBI, he worked for MITRE Corporation, supporting the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). He later worked for Lockheed Martin Corporation supporting the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA).

Dr. Zaideman has a BA (English/communications) and a JD (law) from DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois, and an MA (Near Eastern studies) and a PhD (Near Eastern languages and literature) from New York University.

Dr. Zaideman is proficient in Persian (Farsi), Arabic, and Hebrew languages. He is also frequently called upon to participate on discussion panels in Washington, D.C. think tanks concerning Middle Eastern issues.

Dr. Zaideman also served as an adjunct fellow: an academic appointment at the Inter-University Center for Terrorism Studies, Washington, D.C.