Abstract
For much of the last quarter of the twentieth century, Islamic politics appeared to lie beyond the pale of legitimate politics in many Muslim-majority states in the world. That unenviable condition could be glimpsed from several defining moments that encouraged portrayals of Islamic politics as fundamentalism, extremism, radicalism or fanaticism (Said 1997: xiv–xx, xlvii–xlviii, 31–5).1 First, the triumph of the clerics in the revolution in Iran led to authoritarian rule that left little space for non-Islamic pluralist political participation or opposition. Second, Anwar Sadat’s assassination by Islamist militants in Egypt exposed the predilection of some strands of political Islam for armed opposition to the state. Third, the cancellation of general elections in Algeria, which the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) was on course to win, precipitated a civil war that pitted the violent insurgency of the Islamic Army of Salvation (AIS) and the Armed Islamic Group (AIG) against the ruthless repression of the Algerian state. Fourth, the internecine struggle among domestic rivals in Afghanistan following the Soviet defeat and withdrawal ended with the seizure of power by the Taliban whose rule was marked by a very harsh religious conservatism. Fifth, a democratically elected Islamic government in Turkey was accused of subverting the secular character of the Turkish state and its prime minister was deposed in 1997.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Abrahamian, Ervand (1991) ‘Khomeini: Fundamentalist or populist?’, New Left Review, 186 (Mar/Apr): 102–19.
Abuza, Zachary (2003) Militant Islam in Southeast Asia: Crucible of Terror, Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Press.
Armstrong, Karen (2000) Islam: A Short History, London: Phoenix Press.
Bayat, Asef (2007) Making Islam Democratic: Social Movements and the Post-Islamist Turn, Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Berman, Sheri (2013) ‘The promise of the Arab Spring: In political development, no gain without pain’, Foreign Affairs, 92, 1 (Jan/Feb): 64–74.
Brumber, Daniel and Larry Diamond (2003) ‘Introduction’, in Islam and Democracy in the Middle East, Larry Diamond, Marc F. Plattner and Daniel Brumberg (eds), Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. ix–xxvi.
Buehler, Michael (2012) ‘Revisiting the inclusion-moderation thesis in the context of decentralized institutions: The behaviour of Indonesia’s Prosperous Justice Party in national and local politics’, Party Politics, 19, 2: 210–29.
Colas, Alejandro (2004) ‘The reinvention of populism: Islamicist responses to capitalist development in the contemporary Maghreb’, Historical Materialism, 12, 4: 231–60.
CUP (Columbia University Press) (n.d.) ‘Interview with Olivier Roy, author of Globalized Islam: The Search for a New Ummah’, http://cup.columbia.edu/static/Interview-roy-olivier-globalized (accessed 4 April 2013).
Esposito, John L. (1998) Islam: The Straight Path, New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 3rd edition.
Esposito, John L. and John O. Voll (1996) Islam and Democracy, New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Gunaratna, Rohan (2002) Inside Al Qaeda: Global Network of Terror, New York: Columbia University Press.
Halliday, Fred (1995) ‘“Islam is in danger”: Authority, Rushdie and the struggle for the migrant soul’, in The Next Threat: Western Perceptions of Islam, Jochen Hippler and Andrea Lueg (eds), London and Boulder, Colorado: Pluto Press, in association with Transnational Institute, Amsterdam; translated by Laila Friese, pp. 71–81.
Halliday, Fred (2000) Nation and Religion in the Middle East, London: Saqi Books.
Halliday, Fred (2005), 100 Myths about the Middle East, London, Saqi Books.
Hamilton-Hart, Natasha (2005) ‘Terrorism in Southeast Asia: expert analysis, myopia and fantasy’, Pacific Review, 18, 3 (September): 303–25.
Hippler, Jochen and Andrea Lueg (eds) (1995) The Next Threat: Western Perceptions of Islam, London and Boulder, Colorado: Pluto Press, in association with Transnational Institute, Amsterdam; translated by Laila Friese.
Hadiz, Vedi, R. and Khoo Boo Teik (2010) ‘Approaching Islam and politics from political economy: Comparisons between Indonesia and Malaysia’, Pacific Review, 24, 4 (September 2011): 463–86.
Jones, Seth G. (2013) ‘The mirage of the Arab Spring: Deal with the region you have, not the region you want’, Foreign Affairs, 92, 1 (Jan/Feb): 55–63.
Kessler, Clive (1972) ‘Islam, society and political behavior: some comparative implications of the Malay case’, The British Journal of Sociology, 23, 1 (March): 33–50.
Lerner, Daniel (1964) The Passing of Traditional Society: Modernizing the Middle East, New York: Free Press.
Lewis, Bernard (1990) ‘The roots of Muslim rage’, The Atlantic (September), http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1990/09/the-roots-of-muslim-rage/304643/?single_page=true (accessed 12 April 2013).
Mamdani, Mahmood (2004) Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War and the Roots of Terror, New York: Pantheon Books.
McVey, Ruth (1965) The Rise of Indonesian Communism, Ithaca: Cornell University.
Nasr, Vali (2009) Forces of Fortune: The Rise of the New Muslim Middle Class and What It Will Mean for Our World, New York: Free Press.
Pripstein Posuney, Marsha (2004) ‘Enduring authoritarianism: Middle East lessons for comparative theory’, Comparative Politics, 36, 2 (January): 127–38.
Rabasa, Angel (2005) ‘Moderate and radical Islam’, Testimony presented before the House Armed Services Committee Defense Review Terrorism and Radical Islam Gap Panel on 3 November 2005, Santa Monica, Rand Corporation.
Rodinson, Maxime (1974) Islam and Capitalism, translated by Brian Pearce, Harmondsworth: Penguin.
Roy, Olivier (1994) The Failure of Political Islam, translated by Carol Volk, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
Said, Edward W (1997), Covering Islam, New York: Vintage.
Shiraishi, Takashi (2011) ‘The making of a Jihadist: Itinerary and language in Imam Samudra’s Aku Melawan Teroris!’, in Traveling Nation-Makers: Transnational Flows and Movements in the Making of Modern Southeast Asia, Caroline S. Hau and Kasian Tejapira (eds), Singapore: NUS Press and Kyoto: Kyoto University Press, pp. 281–303.
Sidel, John (2007), The Islamicist Threat in Southeast Asia: A Reassessment, Washington: East-West Centre.
Singh, Bilveer (2007) The Talibanization of Southeast Asia: Losing the War on Terror to Islamist Extremists, Westport, CT: Praeger Security International.
Tripp, Charles (2006) Islam and the Moral Economy: The Challenge of Capitalism, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Tuğal, Cihan (2009) Passive Revolution: Absorbing the Islamic Challenge to Capitalism, Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Wajahat Ali (2010) ‘The future of Malaysia: An interview with opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim’, Counterpunch, March 5–7, http://www.counterpunch.org/waj03052010.html (accessed 8 March 2010).
Yavuz, Hakan M. (2009) Secularism and Muslim Democracy in Turkey, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Zubaida, Sami (2011) Beyond Islam: A New Understanding of the Middle East, London: I. B. Tauris.
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Copyright information
© 2014 IDE-JETRO and Murdoch University
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Teik, K.B., Hadiz, V.R., Nakanishi, Y. (2014). Islamic Politics between Dissent and Power: An Overview. In: Teik, K.B., Hadiz, V.R., Nakanishi, Y. (eds) Between Dissent and Power. IDE-JETRO Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137408808_1
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137408808_1
Publisher Name: Palgrave Macmillan, London
Print ISBN: 978-1-349-48841-4
Online ISBN: 978-1-137-40880-8
eBook Packages: Palgrave Economics & Finance CollectionEconomics and Finance (R0)