Abstract
The significant events stirring the Middle East can hardly be comprehended without recognising and conceptualising the considerable cultural transformations in the region. Hamas' electoral victory in January 2006 in Palestine, Hizbullah's political and military victory in Lebanon in the July war of the same year, and the instantaneous initiation of Iraqi resistance in April 2003 following the American invasion are neither isolated nor random events but events that require explanation. This paper examines the ‘New Islamic Phenomenon’, the latest reinvention of Islam and the corresponding new trend in political Islam, focusing primarily on the rise of Hamas, in order to explain the region's cultural transformations and consider the future trajectory of political Islam following Israel's war on Gaza. This article sharply distinguishes the new Islamic movements, politically and theologically, from other fundamentalist orientations and agues that the new trend in Islam represents both the new Arab nationalism and a major endeavour in Islamic intellectual and theological renewalism.
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