Mostafa’s approach, continuing the inter-paradigm debate in international relations theory, has been to focus on providing an “Islamic perspective” to the study and analysis of IR, that is an identifiable school of thought with an emphasis on the “civilizational” component. Mostafa’s work comprises a series of publications mainly in Arabic associated with this perspective, and a series of graduate studies which include some distinguished doctoral dissertations. Basically, it presents an Islam-based epistemological approach, in the sense of, as Mostafa tells us in the introduction to Part iv, an “Islamic civilizational paradigm,” not merely an “Islamic paradigm”.
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