Abstract
<p>The events of 9/11 era had a number of dramatic results for ‘Islam’ and the Muslim world; and one such result was a surplus of endeavours through various mediums to conceptualise, hypothesise, and posit an ostensible ‘divide’ between ‘Islam’ (as a religion, ideology, and political system) and Western culture and society. In post-9/11 era, Islam was frequently used as a ‘violent’ and ‘terrorist’ religion and, on the other, there has been a prodigious demand for information about Islam, and things related to Islam. It gave a momentum, in the years to come, to an issue (among a multiple of issues and discourses) referred as “Islamism”—a term/ label, in many senses, used collectively but commonly for “Islamic fundamentalism”, “Islamic extremism”, “Islamic conservatism”, “radicalism”, “political Islam”, etc. This paper, in this backdrop, presents an assessment of the recent scholarship on “Islamism” as a discourse. It highlights and presents a detailed evaluation and estimation, with some critical and comparative notes, on some important works dealing with various aspects and facets of Islamism (radicalism and political Islam), and puts forward some insights on the future prospects of ‘Islamism’ as a discourse.</p>
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This paper provides answer, through a literature assessment, to the development and advancement, expansion and extension, of Islamism as a discourse; looks into its various dimensions, and focuses on its future prospects as well being theoretical and theoretic in nature and analytical and comparative in methodology, this paper focuses on some important works which discuss various dimensions of Islamism
What we find hard, difficult, and challenging, is to answer and predict the future prospects of Islamism
Summary
It is a well-known fact that after the events of 9/11, a number of dramatic changes took place in the political landscape. Euben (Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College) and Muhammad Qasim Zaman (Professor of Near Eastern Studies and Religion at Princeton University)—take “Islamism” to refer to the contemporary movements that attempt to return to the scriptural foundations of the Muslim community, excavating and interpreting them for application to the present-day social and political world(Euben and Zaman; 2009: 4).Consisting of 19 chapters and divided into 5 parts (I-V),this anthology includes 46-page introduction (by the editors) and biographical introductions and notes preceding each “text” These selected texts cover the topics on a variety and multiplicity of positions, ranging from the relationship between Islam and politics/ state, to Jihad and violence, and from Islam and democracy to gender, and women’s rights/position. The book makes the reader understand through various current and
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