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The report provides a brief background on Islam in sub-Saharan Africa and its policy lessons for East Africa, the Horn, Nigeria, and Senegal. A future research agenda for policy analysts and overall recommendations for United States policy conclude the report.

• Introduction
• The case studies: Morocco, Jordan, and Yemen
• Final conclusions
• Policy implications.

"On April 12, 2005, the United States Institute of Peace's Grant Program organized a roundtable discussion featuring three Institute grantees who had conducted research in the Middle East on the role and impact of Islamist parties. This report summarizes their presentations. The three grantees-Professor Janine Astrid Clark (University of Guelph, Ontario), Professor Sultan Tepe (University of Illinois, Chicago), and Professor Carrie Rosefsky Wickham (Emory University, Atlanta)-were joined at the roundtable by discussant Daniel Brumberg, a professor at Georgetown University and special consultant to the Institute's Muslim World Initiative. Judy Barsalou, the Institute's vice president for Grants, moderated the discussion and prepared this report."-P. [1].

• Editor's note
• Summary
• Introduction
• Intellectual background and ideology
• Concept of Jews and Israel
• Peace initiatives and truces
• Islamic jurisprudence
• After the elections
• Western perceptions
• Conclusions: the view from 2009 and beyond
• Postscript.