Chapter 1. Introduction: What this Study is not and What it Aspires to be -- Chapter 2. "Political Islam" - A Contested Term -- Chapter 3. The Scientific Background to our own Empirical Study -- Chapter 4. Methods, and Design of our own Empirical Study -- Chapter 5. The Empirical Results of our Empirical Study -- Chapter 6. Discussion and Conclusions of this Study in the Context of the Empirical Results Obtained

This open access book presents an international comparison of religiously motivated extremism in the Arab world and around the globe. Based on data from the Arab Barometer and the World Values Survey, it applies advanced statistical techniques to analyze how religiously motivated political extremism affects political and social outcomes as well as political violence. The study clearly shows that identification with a political Islam that also influences elections, promotes religious and gender discrimination, and advocates an Islamist interpretation of Islam, are the main interrelated syndromes of political Islam that together explain more than 50% of the total variance of the 24 model variables used