In the Path of God: Islam and Political Power is a book written by historian Daniel Pipes on "Islamic fundamentalism", or militant Islam. It was published in 1984.

In 1995 Daniel Pipes remarked : "Unnoticed by most Westerners, war has been unilaterally declared on Europe and the United States."

CONTENTS

• Understanding Islam in Politics
  • Impediments to a Westerner's Understanding
  • This Book

PART I THE PREMODERN LEGACY

• Islamic Sacred Law and Politics
  • Sacred Law in Three Monotheisms
  • Public Ideals in Islamic Sacred Law
• The Medieval Synthesis
  • Non-Implementation of the Law's Public Ideals
  • Withdrawal from Power
  • Occasions for Action
• Relations with Non-Muslims
  • Believers Ascendant
  • Disdain for West Europe
  • Christian Hostility
  • Conclusion: The Civilization of Islam

PART II ENCOUNTERING THE WEST

• Western Armies and Civilization
  • Europe's Supremacy
  • Worldly Failure and Its Effects
  • Modernization and Westernization
• New Attitudes toward the Sacred Law
  • Reformism: Westernizing the Sacred Law
  • Secularism: Withdrawing the Sacred Law from Politics
  • Fundamentalism: Making the Sacred Law a Political Ideology
• Responses to Western Political Ideologies
  • Participating in Politics
  • Defining Borders and Loyalties
  • Relations with Non-Muslim Governments
• Muslim Anomie
  • Hostility with Europe
  • Male-Female Relations
  • Avoiding Reality
  • The Travails of Modern Islam
  • Conclusion: Muslim Ambivalence

PART III ISLAM IN CURRENT AFFAIRS

• The Islamic Revival: A Survey of Countries
  • Dominant Majorities: The Fundamentalist Surge
  • Moieties: A Greater Drive To Rule
  • Small Minorities: Increased Autonomist Demands
  • Characteristics of the Revival
• The Great Oil Boom
  • Setting the Stage
  • Oil and Islam: A Changed Psychology
  • Saudi and Libyan Networks
  • Iran: Disruption and Inspiration
  • Conclusion: The Revival and Future Choices