Today, Islamism is a spent political ideology in Sudan. For thirty years, the country was ruled by a highly corrupt and repressive military-Islamist regime. In the spring of 2019, popular protests pressured the regime’s head,…
The Maydan Podcast · H.A. Hellyer on Tradition, Traditionalism, and Muslim Politics – Special Guest Episode In this episode of Maydan Podcast, CGIS Director Peter Mandaville speaks with H.A. Hellyer, a scholar and analyst…
In this episode of Maydan Podcast, CGIS Director Peter Mandaville speaks with H.A. Hellyer, a scholar and analyst unique in his experience in studying religious establishments worldwide and the halls of policy-making in the West….
M.A. Muqtedar Khan. Islam and Good Governance: A Political Philosophy of Ihsan. (New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019).pp.279. $29.99 paperback. DOI : 10.1057/978-1-137-54832-0 The outbreak of the Arab Spring clearly demonstrated a need to reformulate…
Fatma Aladağ: Let me begin by asking: how should we define Islamism? Lutfi Sunar: The traditional world has undergone a fundamental change since the eighteenth century when the known models of the ancient world began…
In January 2018, I sat down for an interview with Mahmoud Dicko, president of the High Islamic Council of Mali (HCIM). As I asked Dicko what I thought were relatively innocuous questions about his positions…
Editor’s note: Organized by M. Tahir Kilavuz, this roundtable is a companion to “Roundtable on Political Islam after the Arab Uprisings” a previous Maydan-Jadaliyya Roundtable edited by Abdullah al-Arian. It features contributions from Stacey Philbrick Yadav,…
Jocelyne Cesari, What is Political Islam? (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers 2018), 232 pages. Hardcover: $65.00 | Reviewed by Shreya Parikh The discontentment generated by Islamic parties in various countries in the aftermath of the…
INTRODUCTION – Abdullah Al-Arian, Roundtable Organizer and Editor of Critical Currents in Islam page: Five years ago, we brought together the leading scholars of the study of political Islam and invited them to weigh in on…
In early December 2017, the British Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson gave a speech to the Foreign Commonwealth Office on the U.K’s counter-terrorism efforts entitled ‘How global Britain is helping to win the struggle against Islamist…
ONLINE PRIMER Türköne, A. Özcan, İ. Kutluer, M. A. Aydın, O. Akay, “İslamcılık” DİA, vol. 23, TDV, 2001. : A useful introductory encyplopedia entry written by five experts on political, philosophical, legal and literary aspects of…
Dr. Peter Mandaville, Professor of International Affairs in the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University served from 2015-2016 as a Senior Adviser in the Secretary of State’s Office of Religion &…
The creation and strategic utilization, and selective sectarianization of sacred history is a key component of contemporary conflicts between competing social movements and armed groups around the world. This article will highlight the deployment of…
Viewed from afar, typically the West, sectarianism in the Middle East symbolizes the age-old struggle among Muslims, and within Islam, to modernize. Lingering atavistic hatreds, so this narrative goes, prevents equal recognition and treatment of…