Abstract
Post-Islamism as coined by Asef Bayat in 1996 laid the framework to analyze rapid and fundamental changes in social and political life of the Muslim world. However, this paper argues that the scholarship around post-Islamism disregards neoliberal structuration introduced and expanded by post-Islamist parties and movements (such as the Justice and Development Party of Turkey). This structuration, coupled with the legacies of anti-left sentiments in preceding Islamist movements, stifles the Muslim youth in the region whose frustrations and aspirations are left silenced. Based on my ethnographic study between 2013 and 2017, the paper introduces the group of the Anti-Capitalist Muslims in Turkey as an internal challenge to the legacies of Islamist ideologies and the neoliberal politics of post-Islamism.
Highlights
Post-Islamism as a term coined by Asef Bayat in (Bayat 1996) gained great prominence, especially in the aftermath of 9/11
What falls short in the scholarship on and around post-Islamism, I argue, is to diminish these projects as mergers of Western liberal rights and freedoms and Islamism to create the post-Islamist condition
The growing youth and student movements in the region against these neoliberal tendencies and the following popular uprisings from Egypt to Turkey should be centered in scholarly engagements of Islamism and post-Islamism today more than ever
Summary
Post-Islamism as a term coined by Asef Bayat in (Bayat 1996) gained great prominence, especially in the aftermath of 9/11. The growing youth and student movements in the region against these neoliberal tendencies and the following popular uprisings from Egypt to Turkey should be centered in scholarly engagements of Islamism and post-Islamism today more than ever. In line with this critique, in this paper, I briefly introduce what I find to be a new, unique social movement that emerged in Turkey after 2008, a Muslim youth group, the “Anti-Capitalist Muslims”. Based on my larger research, in this paper, I argue that the group began a conversation which exceeds and transcends the discussions on Islamism and post-Islamism as they challenged both Islamist politics and post-Islamist conditions by centralizing neoliberal capitalism and solidarity across multiple axes of oppression
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