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Rethinking Islamist Politics - Culture, the State and Islamism (Paperback, New edition)
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Rethinking Islamist Politics - Culture, the State and Islamism (Paperback, New edition)
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In an atmosphere of growing concern over the threat posed by
Islamist violence, political Islamism has become the most important
of geopolitical issues. In the process, it has been misrepresented.
Contrary to what many believe, Islamist movements are characterised
by their diversity. Revisiting the main arguments and explanations
that have been used over the past twenty years to understand
Islamist activism, moderate as well as militant, Salwa Ismail here
proposes a rethinking of Islamist politics. The phenomenon of
political Islam is determined by macro and micro-level changes in
the Muslim world, such as the retreat of the welfare state across
the Middle East, and the subsequent expansion in the role of
informal political activists in the popular neighbourhoods of such
cities as Algiers or Cairo. Ismail examines both levels to explain
the socio-economic and political settings out of which Islamism has
developed. Her focus is both the economic and political
environments that fomented Islamism, and the structures of Islamist
movements themselves (from their ideologies to their modes of
action). Looking at Islamism as a form of contestation politics,
Ismail offers a reassessment of its failures and successes -
limited, as it is, by its use of violence, but capable of real
mobilisation at a popular level. "Rethinking Islamist Politics"
will be vital reading for anyone seeking to understand such
spectacular expressions of Islamism as the September 11th attacks,
but also the everyday struggles of ordinary people which Islamism
embodies.
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