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The New Political Islam - Human Rights, Democracy, and Justice (Hardcover)
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The New Political Islam - Human Rights, Democracy, and Justice (Hardcover)
Series: Haney Foundation Series
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Islamist political parties and groups are on the rise throughout
the Muslim world and in Muslim communities in the West. Owing
largely to the threat of terrorism, political Islam is often
portrayed as a monolithic movement embodying fundamentalism and
theocracy, an image magnified by the rise of populism and
xenophobia in the United States and Europe. Reality, however, is
far more complicated. Political Islam has evolved considerably
since its spectacular rise decades ago, and today it features
divergent viewpoints and contributes to discrete but simultaneous
developments worldwide. This is a new political Islam, more global
in scope but increasingly local in action. Emmanuel Karagiannis
offers a sophisticated analysis of the different manifestations of
contemporary Islamism. In a context of global economic and social
changes, he finds local manifestations of Islamism are becoming
both more prevalent and more diverse. Many Islamists turn to
activism, still more participate formally in the democratic
process, and some, in far fewer numbers, advocate violence-a wide
range of political persuasions and tactics that reflects real and
perceived political, cultural, and identity differences.
Synthesizing prodigious research and integrating insights from the
globalization debate and the literature on social movements, The
New Political Islam seeks to explain the processes and factors
leading to distinctive fusions of "the global" and "the local"
across the landscape of contemporary political Islam. Examining
converts to Islam in Europe, nonviolent Islamists with global
reach, Islamist parties in Turkey, Egypt, and Tunisia, and militant
Shia and Sunni groups in Syria and Iraq, Karagiannis demonstrates
that Islamists have embraced ideas and practices from the global
marketplace and have attempted to implement them locally. He looks
closely at the ways in which Islamist activists, politicians, and
militants have utilized the language of human rights, democracy,
and justice to gain influence and popular support and to contend
for power.
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