Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART I: Islamic exceptionalism -- 1. Exception/exceptionalism -- Introduction -- Globalizing exception -- Revisiting Islamic exceptionalism -- The phantasmal modern and global exception -- Conclusion -- 2. Liberalism, Islam, and international relations -- Securitization, liberalism and Islam -- Islam as the radical Other -- Securitization as liberalism's backstop -- Creating homogeneous cultural space -- Conclusion -- 3. Human security and Islam -- Revisiting human security -- Islamic exceptionalism -- Global exception -- Exceptionalism(s) and human security -- Conclusion -- 4. Islam and the postsecular -- Introduction -- IR and postsecularity -- Islam and the postsecular -- Rupture and displacement -- Conclusion -- PART II: Challenge and response -- 5. Globalization and cultural conflicts -- Mapping Islamic resurgence -- Cultural or class conflict? -- Antecedents -- Revisiting cultural conflict -- Conclusion -- 6. Fate of democracy -- Introduction -- Globalization and democracy -- Democracy and Islam -- A fractured political community -- Conclusion -- 7. Leadership in challenging times -- Introduction -- Perilous orthodoxy -- Islamic discourses and the crisis of leadership -- Conclusion -- PART III: Beyond Western IR -- 8. Critical IR and Islam -- Antinomies and silence -- Culture or cultures? -- Transnational hegemony or diffusion? -- Hegemony or dominance? -- Conclusion -- 9. Postorientalism and civilizational discourse -- Politics and civilizational analysis -- The scopic regimes of orientalism -- Agonism and postorientalism -- Conclusion -- 10. Ibn Khaldun and world order -- History and the philosophy of history -- Politics and society -- Culture and civilization -- Ibn Khaldun and world order -- The Islamic world