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Introduction: Islamic sects and movements / Carole M. Cusack and M. Afzal Upal -- Sectarianism in SunnīIslam / Ronald Geaves -- Tablīghī Jamāʻat / Zacharias Pieri -- The Muslim Brotherhood / Rickard Lagervall -- The Gülen Movement : between Turkey and international exile / Caroline Tee -- The Islam Nusantara Movement in Indonesia / Hisanori Kato -- Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) : a grassroots movement advocating moderate Islam / Faried F. Saenong -- Women and Islamic movements / Eva Nisa -- Imāmiyya Shīʻa (The Twelvers) / Mohammad Fazlhashemi -- Zaydism / Najam Haider -- The Ismāʻīlīs and their traditions / Farhad Daftary -- The Dāʼūdī Bohras (Mustaʻlī Ismāʻīlī Shīʻa) : using modernity to institutionalise a Fāṭimid tradition / Jonah Blank -- The Alevīs and ʻAlawīs / Yvette Talhamy -- The Heyʼati Movement : charismatic preachers, politics and youth culture / David Thurfjell -- The citadel of Salafism / Joas Wagemakers -- The Taliban / Jon Armajani -- Ḥamās : rhe Islamic resistance movement / Shaul Bartal -- Hizb ut-Tahrir : dreaming of caliphate / Meerim Aitkulova -- Ungoverned or alternatively governed spaces in north-eastern Nigeria : a critical exploration of Boko Haram's Ideological Motif / Benson O. Igboin -- From identity to militancy : the Shīʻa of Hezbollah / Steven Childs -- The Faizrakhmanisty : the Islamic sect as a social problem in Russia / Kaarina Aitamurto -- A genealogy of the theology of Takfirism as a political theory: the case of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) / Emin Poljarevic -- Ṣūfism / Marta Dominguez Diaz -- Javād Nūrbakhsh and the Niʻmatullāhī 'Khaniqahi' order / Milad Milani -- Subud : an Indonesian interpretation of Ṣūfism / Antoon Geels -- René Guénon and traditionalism / William Rory Dickson -- Ṣūfism and the Gurdjieff 'work' : a contested relationship / Carole M. Cusack -- The cultural genetics of the Aḥmadiyya Muslim Jamāʻat / M. Afzal Upal -- The nation of Islam / Edward E. Curtis IV -- The Moorish Science Temple of America / Fathie Ali Abdat -- The Ansaaru Allah community / Susan J. Palmer -- The Druze / Hussam S. Timani -- Yezidism / Victoria Arakelova -- The Bahāʼī faith / Lillith Osborn.