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Part I. Definitions -- Introduction : Islamic political radicalism in Western Europe / Tahir Abbas -- The discourse of 'terrorism' between violence, justice and international order / Jorgen S. Nielsen -- A clinical psychology perspective on radical Islamic youth / Edward J. Lifton -- The scales for defining Islamic political radicalism / Ismail Adam Patel -- Part II. Islamic political radicalism in Europe -- Europe and political Islam : encounters of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries / Sara Silvestri -- Anti-Semitism amongst Muslims / Haris Aziz -- The growth of Islamic radicalism in Eurasia / Galina M. Yemelianova -- Radical Islam in Europe : misperceptions and misconceptions / Alok Rashmi Mukhopadhyay -- Part III. The British context -- How the Zionist colonisation of Palestine radicalised British Muslims / Daud Abdullah -- From the ethos of justice to the ideology of justice : understanding radical views of Scottish Muslims / Gabriele Marranci -- Islamic political radicalism in Britain : the case of Hizb-ut-Tahrir / Sadek Hamid -- Islamic political radicalism in Britain : Muslim men in Bradford / Marie Macey -- 'Because I am Pakistani ... and I am Muslim ... I am political' - gendering political radicalism : young femininities in Bradford / Gurchathen Sanghera and Suruchi Thapar-Björkert -- Disconnection and exclusion : pathways to radicalisation? / Basia Spalek -- Transitional religiosity experiences : contextual disjuncture and Islamic poliltical radicalism / Akil N. Awan -- An assessment of colonial strategies of resistance, liminality and Herberg's thesis in the rise of radicalism among British South Asian youth / Ron Geaves -- Part IV. After 7/7 -- Ruminations and reflections on British Muslims and Isalm post-7/7 / H.A. Hellyer -- Electronic monitoring and the creation of control orders for terrorist suspects in Britain / Mike Nellis -- British Islamic political radicalism / Salma Yaqoob -- Disengaging with terrorism : the internal Muslim challenge in deligitimising radicalism as a means of tackling extremism / Sayyed Nadeem Kazmi