The Iranian revolution greatly aroused outsiders' curiosity and
misunderstanding of Islam. The relatively easy overthrow of the
Shah and the pronouncements of the new Iranian regime brought to
the forefront an image of 'militant Islam' which has survived in
one form or another since the Crusades. At the time, there was the
assumption in the West that Islam was inevitably revolutionary,
militant, or at least anti-Western and that the Iranian example was
likely to be repeated in Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and other countries
where Muslims predominated. Originally published in paperback in
1983, this book was designed to examine such assumptions and to
analyse the complex roles which Islam plays in the political
process of several countries. Although the authors called upon the
insights of various disciplines, and chose different approaches,
they all shared the conviction that the idea of 'Islamic politics'
needed to be made specific if crude stereotypes about Islam were to
be avoided.
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