Global Governance and Muslim Organizations: Introduction

Pal and Tok’s introduction describes the modern system of global governance, three major misconceptions about Islam and its engagement with the world, and each of the book’s chapters. The modern global governance system comprises international and quasi-governmental organizations, the private sector and NGOs, as well as new decision-making processes that produce both hard and soft law. Muslim-majority states and global Islamic organizations engage in various and complex ways with this system, contrary to the misconceptions that there is a monolithic “Islamic world” that is opposed both to the West and to modernity.