Abstract
This article embarks on making a political analysis of Islamist politics by criticizing the hegemonic approach in the field and considering a number of the institutions or structures, composing of either state and its ideological-repressive apparatuses, political parties and actors, intellectual leadership and ideology, and political relations, events, or facts in political sphere. The aforesaid approach declares that the social and economic factors, namely class position, capital accumulation, market, education, and culture, have been far better significative for a political study in examining any political movement, party, and fact or event. However, our study will more stress on political structures, events and struggles or conflicts produced and reproduced by the political institutions, the relationships and the processes in question. Taking into account all these, it will be argued that they have been more significant as compared to class position, capital accumulation, market in economic structure, or culture and education, in a political study.
Highlights
The question, ‘how politics in Islamic world is studied’, is rather all-important in terms of clarifying and comprehending Islamist politics in Muslim societies
The aim has been fundamentally to ask if or not there would be an alternative perspective able to analyze how to change or transform Islamist politics in Muslim societies, by criticizing the dominant approach in the studies on Islamism, Islamist political movements and actors. This approach can be stated to have been more reductionist in sense of asserting that political structures, relationships, and facts/events have undergone a change, as a result of transforming the socio-economic structures and relationships of Muslim societies. from economy, class position, capital accumulation, culture, and education till technologicalcommunicative innovations, globalization and neoliberal policies
Alleging that Islamist politics have been able to change in line with the transformation of sociological appearances of Islamic world in a globalized world, the analytical tools of an approach to study Islamist politics would consist of a range of sociological factors, such as economy, class position, capital accumulation, culture, and education till technological-communicative innovations, globalization and neoliberal policies, and more importantly it would attempt to study political structures or institutions by focusing on them
Summary
The question, ‘how politics in Islamic world is studied’, is rather all-important in terms of clarifying and comprehending Islamist politics in Muslim societies. Having considered a good number of variables such as education, economy, capital accumulation, social classes, market, computer-based technologies and communication tools, and globalization within Islamic societies, this approach would embark to study Islamist politics, namely Islamist political parties, and movements in the light of these changes, by referring more to sociology of Islam, including the social and economic transformations mentioned above, as a theoretical-analytical approach It will be one of the essential points of our criticism in the context of how to analyze Islamic politics. As a result of this, this approach would speak of the different ways of Islamist politics precisely separated from one other, which have been represented by the multiple and heterogeneous Islamic communities or groups They have entered into capitalist economic relations, got a modern education, tended to be more rational, and at the same adopted the dominant patters of a capitalist consumption and market-oriented lifestyle in keeping with new social classes. We will try to give a more concrete framework to this analysis through the cases of Indonesia, but mainly of Turkey, on the basis of our assertion that all everything that is political, composing of its structures and/or institutions mentioned above, are more constitutive and significative, without making a political reductionism, than a socio-economic change and transformation in structuring a political party, movement or ideology in Islamic world
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