Political Islam at the Crossroads
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Political Islam at the Crossroads

Resilience and Adaptation in the Contemporary Middle East

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Political Islam at the Crossroads

Resilience and Adaptation in the Contemporary Middle East

About this book

A comparative analysis of Islamist groups' ideological positioning toward nation-state, secularism, and democracy across different countries in the MENA region.

Authoritarian reassertion following the Arab uprisings in the Middle East has restrained Islamists' political participation and challenged their survival as both opposition groups and rulers. In light of national sociopolitical variations across the region, this book explores Islamists' means of adaptation and resilience in the face of this political exclusion, unpacking Islamists' sociopolitical persistence and ideological sustainability.

In doing so this book sheds light on the following questions: How did Islamists adapt to contextual restrictions in terms of repression and stigmatization? How did the Arab uprisings impact their internal debates, ideological revisions, and reconsideration of tools of action? Individual chapters explore similarities and divergences among Islamist groups and parties in terms of ideological affiliations, means of survival and political participation strategies, drawing on comparative cases from across the MENA region. Examples include the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Al-Nahda in Tunisia, the AKP (Justice and Development Party) in Turkey, Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas in Palestine, and the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq. These studies engage critically with conceptual debates related to Islamism, post-Islamism, Jihadist Islam, and the Islamic nation/community (ummah) to determine the trajectory of political Islam in the MENA.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Halftitle Page
  3. Dedication Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Contents
  6. List of Contributors
  7. Preface
  8. Introduction
  9. 1 Bending to the Wind: The Coping Strategies Adopted by the Islamist Political Movements in the Post-2013 Arab World
  10. 2 The Prospects of Political Islam in the Arab and Islamicate World(s) in the Post–Arab Spring Era
  11. 3 Beyond Islamism: A Comparative Analysis of Post-Islamist Trajectories in Turkey and Tunisia
  12. 4 Transformation of Political Islam in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan following the Arab Uprisings: Old Islamism vs. Post-Islamism
  13. 5 A Stalled Change Process: The Case of Ennahda Party in Tunisia a Decade after the Arab Uprisings (2011–2021)
  14. 6 Ennahda Conceptualizing “Tunisianité” during 2014 Constitution Drafting
  15. 7 Hamas: Doing Islamism under Blockade
  16. 8 A Multi-Level Analysis of the Persistence of Transnational Radical Islamism: ISIS in the Aftermath of the Arab Uprisings
  17. 9 Between Factionalism and Reconfigurations: Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood in the Aftermath of 2013
  18. 10 Grievances and Fears in Democratization: The Catalysts for Change in Hamas and Hezbollah Post–Arab Spring
  19. Conclusion
  20. Index
  21. Imprint