The Borders of Islam: Exploring Samuel Huntington’s Faultlines from Al-Andalus to the Virtual Ummah

Edited by Stig Jarle Hansen, Atle Mesoy, and Tuncay Kardas

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December, 2009
Cloth, 352 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-15422-2
$30.00

"This conceptually brilliant book serves as a detailed survey of various 'frontier states' likely to be involved in any future clash of civilizations. It does not dwell on the usual suspects of the Middle East. Instead, it focuses on other states with either large Muslim populations or fragmented religious communities, particularly those suffering from such destabilizing forces as weak economies or significant external penetration." — Christopher Davidson, author of Dubai: The Vulnerability of Success and Abu Dhabi: Oil and Beyond

Related Subjects

• International Affairs
• Islam
• Middle East Studies

About the Author

Stig Jarle Hansen, a specialist in Islamic philosophy and political Islam in Somalia, is a senior researcher at the Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research (NIBR) in Oslo. Atle Mesoy is a researcher in political Islam. Tuncay Kardas teaches at Sakarya University in Turkey where he specializes in Turkish security, political theory, and Islam.

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