East Writing Assignment #2 Professor Yanıkdağ April 19‚ 2012 The rise of Islamism Islamism is an ideology that demands Muslims complete adherence to the law of Islam and rejects as much as possible outside influence. It is based with a deep antagonism towards non-Muslims and has a particular hostility towards the West. It amounts to an effort to turn Islam‚ a religion and civilization‚ into an ideology. Islamism is‚ in other words‚ another twentieth-century radical utopian discourse‚ offering
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that the categories “Islamism” and “post-Islamism” serve primarily as theoretical constructs to signify change‚ difference and the root of change. The advent of post-Islamism does not necessarily mean the historical end of Islamism. Post-Islamism should be identified as qualitatively different discourse and politics born out of Islamist experience. There may be simultaneous processes of both Islamization and post-Islamization. The particular ways in which theterm post-Islamism has been employed in
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I.M. (2010)‚ The Contemporary Arab Reader on Political Islam (London: Pluto Press). Akbarzadeh‚ S. (2011)‚ The Routledge Handbook on Political Islam (London: Routledge). Roy‚ Olivier and Antoine Sfeir‚ eds (2007)‚ The Columbia World Dictionary of Islamism (New York: Columbia University Press). Akbarzadeh‚ S.(2011)‚ “The Paradox of Political Islam‚” in S. Akbarzadeh (ed.)‚ The Routledge Handbook on Political Islam (London: Routledge)‚ pp. 1-8. Asad‚ T. (2003)‚ Genealogies of Religion: Discipline and
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Somalia: Emerging Trends of Political Islam By Abdurahman Abdullahi (Baadiyow) Abdurahman M. Abdullahi (Baadiyow) is a former military officer (19971-1986)‚ electronic engineer‚ Islamic scholar and politician. He obtained PhD degree in the Islamic history from McGill University in Canada and engineering degree from Somali National University. He is co-founder of Mogadishu University in 1997 and its chairman of the Board of Trustees. He is also one of the prominent political figures in Somalia who
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Book Review Making Islam Democratic: Social Movements and the Post-Islamist Turn Author: Asef Bayat Book: Making Islam Democratic: Social Movements and the Post-Islamist Turn. Publisher: Stanford: Stanford University Press‚ 2007. Hardcover: 320 pages ISBN-10: 0804755949 ISBN-13: 978-0804755948 Key-words: democracy‚ Egypt‚ Iran‚ Islam‚ Middle East‚ political history‚ political theology. Reviewed by: Jacob Greenberg hile other disciplines in the social sciences and humanities have made use of comparative
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claims that United States foreign policy in the Afghan war against the Soviet Union in the 1980’s contributed significantly to the strengthening and proliferation of Islamist extremism. Critically evaluate Mamdani’s thesis. How and why did radical Islamism expand? What were the roots of modern terrorism? Were they embedded in a cultural clash between “the West” and “the Orient/East‚” or in political history? What is persuasive about Mamdani’s evidence and argument‚ and
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democratic Islamism in Turkey‚ revolutionary Islam in Iran‚ Islamist opposition in Egypt and Islamist terror in Algeria. This also fits in with the fact that we know comparatively little about the grassroots members of the Islamist movements and the popular sentiments they embody. There is‚ hence‚ a need to continue along the lines of Saad Eddin Ebrahim’s pioneering study of the populist bases of Egyptian Islamists as well as more recent work on the socio-spatial dimension of contemporary Islamism. Such
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To what extent is it true that religious fundamentalism arose as a reaction to the influences of the West? It is true to the large extent that religious fundamentalism arose as a reaction to the influences of the West due to US backing for Shah‚ Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the support for the Mujahedeen. However‚ Western influence may not be the only factor as globalisation and the failure of modernization and secularization also play a part in the rise of religious fundamentalism.
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Marshallsay: Islamic Fundamentalism Introduction Language is power‚ and terms consistently used take on a reality that truth belies. Thus with the term Islamic fundamentalism‚ which has been bandied about and used lightly and interchangeably with Islamism‚ Political Islam‚ Radical Islam‚ and even Islamic terrorism. But‚ do they mean the same thing? In much of the literature (including media reports) on Islam and the political activities of certain Muslims‚ the tendency is to depict the phenomenon
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Search of Al-Qaeda – The Terror Network That Shook The World‚ (London: Simon & Schuster UK Ltd‚ 2002) Esposito Esposito. J. L‚ Unholy War: Terror In The Name Of Islam‚ (Oxford‚ New York: Oxford University Press‚ 2002) Ruthven Rahnema. S‚ Radical Islamism and Failed Developmentalism‚ Third World Quarterly‚ 29(3)‚ (2008)‚ pp.483-496 BIBLIOGRAPHY Ali. T The Clashes of Fundamentalisms: Crusades‚ Jihads and Modernity‚ (London‚ New York: Verso‚2003) Armstrong Al-Azmeh. A‚ Islam and Modernities‚ (London
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