Islamist Politics In The Middle East

Author : Samer Said Shehata
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780415783613

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Islamist Politics in the Middle East by Samer Said Shehata Pdf

For over three decades, Islamist politics, or political Islam, has been one of the most dynamic and contentious political forces in the Middle East. Although there is broad consensus on the importance of political Islam, there is far less agreement on its character, the reasons for Islamist's success, the role of Islamist movements in domestic and international affairs, or what these movements portend for the future. This volume addresses a number of central questions in the study of Islamist politics in the Middle East through detailed case studies of some of the region's most important Islamist movements. Chapters by leading scholars in the field examine the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, Hizbullah, Morocco's Justice and Benevolence, the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood, the Sunni Insurgency in Iraq and Islamist politics in Turkey and Iran. The topics addressed within this volume include social networks and social welfare provision, Islamist groups as opposition actors, Islamist electoral participation, the intersection of Islam and national liberation struggles, the role of religion in Islamist politics, and Islam and state politics in Iran, among other topics. All of the contributing authors are specialists with deep knowledge of the subject matter who are committed to empirically based research. These scholars take Islamists seriously as modern, sophisticated, and strategic political players. Together, their work captures much of the diversity of Islamist politics in the region and will contribute to the scholarship on a topic that continues to be important for the Middle East and the world.

Author : Are Knudsen,Basem Ezbidi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780857736666

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Popular Protest in the New Middle East by Are Knudsen,Basem Ezbidi Pdf

In the wake of the protests that spread throughout the Middle East and North Africa in late 2010 and early 2011, Islamist movements of varying political persuasions have risen to prominence. This is especially the case in post-Mubarak Egypt and post-Ben Ali Tunisia. Popular Protest in the New Middle East examines Islamist approaches to political participation and integration and asks whether regional trends can be discerned with respect to either the strategy of disparate movements or the challenges they face. It offers analysis of the ideologies and actions of these movements, ranging from countries where Islamism is in control of the state as an Islamic theocracy (Iran), the ruling party (for example, Turkey), part of the ruling coalition (Lebanon), or a parliamentary minority (such as in Jordan or Yemen). Are Knudsen and Basem Ezbidi's analysis of the various experiences of protest, participation and integration make this book vital for researchers of the impact of religion on politics (and, indeed vice versa).

Author : K. Teik,V. Hadiz,Y. Nakanishi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781137408808

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Between Dissent and Power by K. Teik,V. Hadiz,Y. Nakanishi Pdf

This study examines the collective progression of Islamic politics between points of dissent and positions of power. It brings about a more a serious understanding of Islamic politics by critically tracing the pathways by which Islamic politics has been transformed in the Middle East and Asia.

Author : Timothy D. Sisk
Publisher : US Institute of Peace Press
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1878379216

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Islam and Democracy by Timothy D. Sisk Pdf

This volume explores the relationship between religion and politics generally, as well as the global wave of democratization in the late twentieth century, as background to different interpretations of political Islam. It analyzes the role of these movements in Iran, Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, the Persian Gulf (especially Saudi Arabia), and the Palestinian community.

Author : Barry Rubin
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2003-01-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0791456188

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Revolutionaries and Reformers by Barry Rubin Pdf

Looks at Islamist movements seeking power today, and the difficult choices they face.

Author : Eva Dingel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781786731159

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Power Struggles in the Middle East by Eva Dingel Pdf

Who are the Muslim Brotherhood and Hizbullah? What do the two movements - one Sunni and one Shi'a - have in common? Despite being classified by a number of countries as 'terrorist' organisations, both are in fact serious political players in the states in which they operate - Egypt and Lebanon. Both have, at various points, advocated pan-Islamism: the unity of Muslims under an Islamic state or caliphate, but, rather than considering them as extremist religious movements, Eva Dingel here studies them as players within the political process. She considers why, at certain points, they have chosen to play by the conventional political rules, while during other periods, they have applied different, more extreme, methods of political protest. Dingel's comparative history of two of the most prominent political Islamist movements sheds light on the complex - and often misunderstood - interaction between Islam and politics in the Middle East. This book is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the changing dynamics of politics in the Islamic world.

Author : Hendrik Kraetzschmar
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781474419277

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Islamists and the Politics of the Arab Uprisings by Hendrik Kraetzschmar Pdf

Demonstrates how the textual output of settler emigration shapes the nineteenth-century literary and artistic imagination.

Author : Metin Heper
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : Islam and politics
ISBN : 0709912897

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Islam and Politics in the Modern Middle East by Metin Heper Pdf

Author : Are J. Knudsen,Bāsim Zabīdī
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Middle East
ISBN : 0755608747

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Popular Protest in the New Middle East by Are J. Knudsen,Bāsim Zabīdī Pdf

Foreword: Arab Revolts in Post-Islamist Times. Asef Bayat -- Chapter 1: Introduction. Are Knudsen -- Chapter 2: Islamism in Tunisia before and after the Arab Spring. Rikke Hostrup Haugbolle and Francesco Cavatorta -- Chapter 3: The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood: Ready for Revolution? Issandr El Amrani -- Chapter 4: Yemen's Islamists: Between Government and Opposition in the Post-Saleh Order. Vincent Durac -- Chapter 5: The Secular Uprising and the Possible Resurgence of Post-Islamism. Lina Khatib and Rob Stewart -- Chapter 6: Democracy as a Minor Necessity in Hamas's Narrative. Karim Knio -- Chapter 7: The Melding of Islam and Secularism: the Headscarf Ban in Turkey. Yildiz Atasoy Postscript. Basem Ezbidi.

Author : Laurence Louer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780197644164

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Shiism and Politics in the Middle East by Laurence Louer Pdf

In this timely book, completed before the current outbreak of unrest in Bahrain that has formed part of the Arab Spring, Laurence Louer explains, the background of the Bahraini conflict in the context of the wider issue of Shiism as a political force in the Arab Middle East, amongst other issues relating to the role of Shiite Islamist movements in regional politics. Her study shows how Bahrain's troubles are a phenomenon based on local perceptions of injustice rather than on the foreign policy of Shiite Iran. More generally, the book shows that, though Iran's Islamic Revolution had an electrifying effect on Shiite movements in Lebanon, Iraq, the Gulf and Saudi Arabia, local political imperatives have in the end been the crucial factor in the direction they have taken. In addition, the overwhelming influence of the Shiite clerical institution has been diminished by the rise to prominence of lay activists within the Shiite movements across the Middle East and the emergence of Shiite anti-clericalism. This book contributes to dispelling the myth of the determining power of Iran in the politics of Iraq, Bahrain and other Arab states with significant Shiite populations.

Author : Sami Zubaida
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0415012775

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Islam, the People and the State by Sami Zubaida Pdf

Author : Khalil al-Anani
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781838606312

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Islamism and Revolution Across the Middle East by Khalil al-Anani Pdf

Why did Islamists respond so differently to the Arab Spring? What do these different responses tell us about Islamists' ideological commitment and resilience, or the contexts within which they were functioning? This book is based on fieldwork on Islamists in eight Middle Eastern countries: Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Morocco, Yemen, Jordan, Kuwait and Syria. The contributors trace the transformation of the Islamists' ideology, behaviour, and strategy since the beginning of the Arab Spring. The aim of the book is to show that Islamists necessarily have an interactive and dialectical relationship with the environments in which they find themselves, and that their behaviour and political calculations are based on a wide range of local, regional and global factors. They take into account the impact of the different contexts the groups found themselves in from authoritarian to open and reformist, and contexts of armed conflict and civil war. An interdisciplinary project, the book captures the ongoing transformation of Islamist parties to explain the reasons why some movements could adapt and make shifts in their discourse and strategy, maintaining organizational coherence and unity, while others fell short and suffered major splits and schisms. The robust theoretical findings update existing literature on Islamism and advance the state of the field.

Author : Salwa Ismail
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2006-05-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780857731326

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Rethinking Islamist Politics by Salwa Ismail Pdf

In an atmosphere of growing concern over the threat posed by Islamist violence, political Islamism has become the most important of geopolitical issues. In the process, it has been misrepresented. Contrary to what many believe, Islamist movements are characterised by their diversity. Revisiting the main arguments and explanations that have been used over the past twenty years to understand Islamist activism, moderate as well as militant, Salwa Ismail here proposes a rethinking of Islamist politics. The phenomenon of political Islam is determined by macro and micro-level changes in the Muslim world, such as the retreat of the welfare state across the Middle East, and the subsequent expansion in the role of informal political activists in the popular neighbourhoods of such cities as Algiers or Cairo. Ismail examines both levels to explain the socio-economic and political settings out of which Islamism has developed. Her focus is both the economic and political environments that fomented Islamism, and the structures of Islamist movements themselves (from their ideologies to their modes of action). Looking at Islamism as a form of contestation politics, Ismail offers a reassessment of its failures and successes - limited, as it is, by its use of violence, but capable of real mobilisation at a popular level. "Rethinking Islamist Politics" will be vital reading for anyone seeking to understand such spectacular expressions of Islamism as the September 11th attacks, but also the everyday struggles of ordinary people which Islamism embodies.

Author : Shadi Hamid,William Faizi McCants
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190649203

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Rethinking Political Islam by Shadi Hamid,William Faizi McCants Pdf

Rethinking Political Islam offers a fine-grained and definitive overview of the changing world of political Islam in the post-Arab Uprising era.

Author : K. Bokhari,F. Senzai
Publisher : Springer
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137313492

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Political Islam in the Age of Democratization by K. Bokhari,F. Senzai Pdf

The continued prominence of Islam in the struggle for democracy in the Muslim world has confounded Western democracy theorists who largely consider secularism a prerequisite for democratic transitions. Kamran Bokhari and Farid Senzai offer a comprehensive view of the complex nature of contemporary political Islam and its relationship to democracy.