Political Islam

Essays from Middle East Report

Joel Beinin, Joe Stork, Joel Beinin, Joe Stork

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN:
  9780520204478
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9780520917583
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Middle Eastern History
• Index: History

The essays and case studies collected here—featuring some of the best material from Middle East Report over the past decade as well as much original material—challenge the facile generalizations about what Western media and political establishments usually call "Islamic fundamentalism." The authors demonstrate the complexity of these movements and offer complementary and contrasting interpretations of their origins and significance. The material included covers a broad range of themes—including democracy and civil society, gender relations and popular culture—as they have emerged in countries throughout the Middle East and North Africa.

Table of contents

• CONTENTS
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• Introduction
• 1. On the Modernity, Historical Specificity, and International Context of Political Islam
• PART ONE. Islam, Democracy, and Civil Society
• 2. Introduction to Part One
• 3. The New Orientalism and the Democracy Debate
• 4. Religion, the State, and Democracy: Contrasting Conceptions of Society in Egypt
• 5. Gender and Civil Society
• 6. Islamist Notions of Democracy
• 7. Secularism, Integralism, and Political Islam: The Egyptian Debate
• PART TWO. The Contest for the State and the Political Economy
• 8. Introduction to Part Two
• 9. Is Iran an Islamic State?
• 10. Islamic Mobilization and Political Change: The Islamist Trend in Egypt's Professional Associations
• 11. Hizb Allah and the Lebanese State
• 12. The Resurgence of Islam and the Welfare Party in Turkey
• 13. Is There an Islamic Economics?
• 14. Funding Fundamentalism: The Political Economy of an Islamist State
• PART THREE. Political Islam and Gender Relations
• 15. Introduction to Part Three
• 16. Women, Islam, and the State
• 17. From Immodesty to Collaboration: Hamas, the Women's Movement, and National Identity in the Intifada
• 18. "Hassiba Ben Bouali, If You Could See Our Algeria": Women and Public Space in Algeria
• 19. Devices and Desires: Population Policy and Gender Roles in the Islamic Republic
• 20. The Women of Sudan's National Islamic Front
• PART FOUR. The Struggle over Popular Culture
• 21. Introduction to Part Four
• 22. Rai, Rap, and Ramadan Nights: Franco-Maghribi Cultural Identities
• 23. Dramatic Reversals: Political Islam and Egyptian Television
• 24. Taking up Space in Tlemcen: The Islamist Occupation of Urban Algeria
• 25. Genesis of a Mobilization: The Young Activists of Algeria's Islamic Salvation Front
• PART FIVE. Movements and Personalities
• 26. Introduction to Part Five
• 27. What Does the Gama'a Islamiyya Want?
• 28. "Silencing Is at the Heart of My Case"
• 29. The Islamist Movement and the Palestinian Authority
• 30. What Kind of Nation? The Rise of Hamas in the Occupied Territories
• 31. Roots of the Shi'i Movement in Lebanon
• 32. "How Can a Muslim Live in This Era?"
• CONTRIBUTORS
• INDEX