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Political Islam (political + islam)
Selected AbstractsPolitical Islam and Foreign Policy in Europe and the United StatesFOREIGN POLICY ANALYSIS, Issue 4 2007Elizabeth Shakman Hurd This paper is about the epistemological underpinnings of European and American foreign policy toward political Islam. European and American approaches to political Islam rely upon commonly held secular assumptions about religion and politics that have significant effects on foreign policy in Europe and the United States. Secularist epistemology produces an understanding of "normal politics" that lends a particular coloring to the politics of Muslim-majority societies. These secularist understandings affect foreign policy in two ways: first, the appearance of Islam in politics is equated with fundamentalism and intolerance, and second, the forms and degrees of separation between Islam and politics that do exist in contemporary Muslim-majority societies either do not appear at all or appear as ill-fitting imitations of a Western secular ideal. Rather than a backlash against modernity or a return to tradition, political Islam is a modern language of politics that challenges and, at times, overturns fundamental assumptions about religion and politics embedded in Western forms of secularism. [source] Global Liberalism Versus Political Islam: Competing Ideological Frameworks in International Politics1INTERNATIONAL STUDIES REVIEW, Issue 4 2005Fiona B. Adamson First page of article [source] Gilles Kepel: Jihad: The Trial of Political IslamJOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY, Issue 2 2006Michael Humphrey No abstract is available for this article. [source] Politico-Religious Discourse of Political Islam in Turkey: The Parties of National OutlookTHE MUSLIM WORLD, Issue 2 2003Ahmet Y First page of article [source] Political Islam and Foreign Policy in Europe and the United StatesFOREIGN POLICY ANALYSIS, Issue 4 2007Elizabeth Shakman Hurd This paper is about the epistemological underpinnings of European and American foreign policy toward political Islam. European and American approaches to political Islam rely upon commonly held secular assumptions about religion and politics that have significant effects on foreign policy in Europe and the United States. Secularist epistemology produces an understanding of "normal politics" that lends a particular coloring to the politics of Muslim-majority societies. These secularist understandings affect foreign policy in two ways: first, the appearance of Islam in politics is equated with fundamentalism and intolerance, and second, the forms and degrees of separation between Islam and politics that do exist in contemporary Muslim-majority societies either do not appear at all or appear as ill-fitting imitations of a Western secular ideal. Rather than a backlash against modernity or a return to tradition, political Islam is a modern language of politics that challenges and, at times, overturns fundamental assumptions about religion and politics embedded in Western forms of secularism. [source] | ||||||||||