The Politics of Pan-Islam: Ideology and Organization

Abstract

The unity of all Muslim believers is in one sense a given: Islam forms a complete moral, cultural, legal, social, and political system. Yet Islamic unity is also a political goal, one that has had influential and controversial expression in the ideal known as Pan-Islam. Jacob Landau's renowned study is the authoritative treatment of the Pan-Islamic movement over the last 120 years. Covering a broad area of the Islamic world including Morocco, South Asia, and the Arabian Peninsula, this timely work has now been expanded to treat recent developments in the ex-Soviet Republics of the Caucases and Central Asia.