1. The Islamist challenge
Islamism versus Muslim politics
The Islamist outlook
Attractions and pitfalls of Islamism
2: Iran: the Islamist state and the reformist agenda
Revolution and reform
Reform's real track record
A Civil War in the right
The new Iran?
3: Islamism in Algeria: a history of hope and agony
The growing political and social gaps
The evolution of political Islam in Algeria
The rise and fall of the Islamic salvation front (FIS)
Whither Algeria?
4: Egypt: the struggle for a nation's soul
Nasser and the Muslim brotherhood
Killing Pharoah
The Egyptian stalemate
Islamism and moderation in Egypt
5: Islamism in the former Yugoslavia
Islam and nationality in Yugoslavia: a general overview
Muslims, Islam, and the war in Bosnia, 1990-2002
Albanians, Islam, and Kosovo, 1974-1999
Did the Balkans become an Islamist beachhead?
6: From the Red star to the green crescent?
Islamism in the former Soviet Union
The shadow of the crescent? Assumptions about Islam in the Soviet Union
Islam, Gorbachev, and the breakup of the USSR
Post-Soviet Islam: general observations
State Islam and the Eurasian consensus
Islamists ascendant? the case of Tajikistan
Islamist ascendant? the case of Chechnya
The Islamist threat in Eurasia: a realistic assessment
7: Some thoughts on Islamist failures in Sudan and Afghanistan
Sudan: trajectory of failure
Afghanistan: an Islamist Cambodia?