Abstract
Pal and Tok’s introduction describes the modern system of global governance, three major misconceptions about Islam and its engagement with the world, and each of the book’s chapters. The modern global governance system comprises international and quasi-governmental organizations, the private sector and NGOs, as well as new decision-making processes that produce both hard and soft law. Muslim-majority states and global Islamic organizations engage in various and complex ways with this system, contrary to the misconceptions that there is a monolithic “Islamic world” that is opposed both to the West and to modernity.
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We will use “Muslim-majority states” through this book rather than “Islamic states” for two reasons. The first is to avoid the obvious confusion with ISIS. The second is to reflect the fact that a large proportion of states with Muslim-majority populations are not “Islamic” in the sense that their laws or constitution is directly and exclusively derived from the Qur’an or sharı’ah law.
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OIC membership: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Benin, Brunei, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Gabon, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ivory Coast, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Libya, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Suriname, Syria, Tajikistan, Togo, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uganda, the United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Yemen
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Arab League membership (2017: 22 members): Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates, Yemen
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Economic Cooperation Organization membership (2017: ten members): Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
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The literature on globalization and Islam has almost completely neglected this dimension of cooperation and engagement in favor of a focus on “political Islam.” See, for example, The Oxford Handbook of Islam and Politics (Esposito & El-Din Shahin, 2013). With 41 essays, it addresses “ideologues, activists, and intellectuals,” Islam in various regions, Islam and the dynamics of specific Islamic countries (Iran, SA, Turkey, Sudan, Afghanistan, Egypt), Islamic movements, and Jihadi. Akbarzadeh (2006) is slightly better (in Volume 4), with essays on the International Criminal Court and the World Trade Organization. But this theme is clearly overshadowed by the interest in political Islam, for example (Rubin, 2007).
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All figures here for 2009, and the section draws from (PewResearchCentre, 2009).
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Pal, L.A., Tok, M.E. (2019). Global Governance and Muslim Organizations: Introduction. In: Pal, L.A., Tok, M.E. (eds) Global Governance and Muslim Organizations. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92561-5_1
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