Islam in International Relations : Politics and Paradigms

Analysing and theorizing Islam and IR Non-Western international relations and geocultural epistemologies Nassef Manabilang Adiong, Raffaele Mauriello and Deina Abdelkader The chapters in this volume address the issue of Islam and International Relations. They provide a detailed picture of the different ways in which it is possible to study the interaction between the Islam ? broadly defi ned as a history, a people, a religion, an intellectual tradition, and the like ? and International Relations (IR) as a discipline. It is well known that the sources of IR conspicuously fail to correspond to the global distribution of its subjects and that there is a necessity to diversify the discipline ? in particular as regards theoretical questions and debates ? by using the experience and intellectual history of non-Western regions and intellectual tradi-tions (in our case the Islamic civilization) to both build and locate gaps within exist-ing IR literature, in particular its theories and paradigms ( Acharya and Buzan 2010 ; Abdelkader, Adiong and Mauriello 2016 )