Post-Islamism
Subtitle: the changing faces of political Islam
By: edited by Asef Bayat
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 351
ISBN-13: 9780199766079; 9780199766062
Subjects: Politik; Islam and politics; Islam
Description: "At least since the Islamic revolution of 1979 in Iran, political Islam or Islamism has been the focus of attention among scholars, policymakers, and the general public. Much has been said about Islamism as a political and moral/ethical trend, but scant attention is paid to its ongoing development. There is now a growing acknowledgment within the scholarly and policy communities that Islamism is in the throes of transformation, but little is known about the nature and direction of these changes. The essays of Post-Islamism bring together young and established scholars and activists from different parts of the Muslim world and the West to discuss their research on the changing discourses and practices of Islamist movements and Islamic states largely in the Muslim majority countries. The changes in these movements can be termed 'post-Islamism, ' defined both as a condition and a project characterized by the fusion of religiosity and rights, faith and freedom, Islam and liberty. Post-Islamism emphasizes rights rather than merely obligation, plurality instead of singular authoritative voice, historicity rather than fixed scriptures, and the future instead of the past."--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Post-Islamism at large / Asef Bayat; title: The making of post-Islamist Iran / Asef Bayat; title: Post-Islamism à la Turca / Ihsan Dagi; title: Islam and the retrenchment of Turkish conservatism / Cihan Tuğal; title: Moroccan post-Islamism : emerging trend or chimera? / Sami Zemni; title: Post-Islamist politics in Indonesia / Noorhaidi Hasan; title: Egypt and its unsettled Islamism / Asef Bayat; title: Hizbullah's Infitah : a post-Islamist turn? / Joseph Alagha; title: Post-Islamist strands in Pakistan : Islamist spin-offs and their contradictory trajectories / Humeira Iqtidar; title: Saudi Arabia and the limits of post-Islamism / Stéphane Lacroix; title: Islamism in Sudan : before, after, in between / Abdelwahab El-Affendi; title: Syria's unusual "Islamic trend" : political reformists, the Ulema, and democracy / Thomas Pierret.