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"Schon bald nach dem Beginn des 'arabischen Frühlings' wurde die éxception marocaine, die Ausnahme Marokko, eines der beliebtesten Themen in den Medien und den öffentlichen Diskussionen in Marokko. Welchen Anteil hat der Islam am Transformationsprozess des Landes? Und welche Rolle kommt dem parteipolitisch organisierten Islam - im Unterschied zu anderen nordafrikanischen Staaten - derzeit für die Entwicklung Marokkos zu?" (Autorenreferat)

TABLE OF CONTENTS; FIGURES AND TABLES; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART I: REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; PART II: RELIGIOUS PERSPECTIVES; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; PART III: COUNTRY PERSPECTIVES; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; PART IV: COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX

Islamist political parties and groups are on the rise throughout the Muslim world and in Muslim communities in the West. Owing largely to the threat of terrorism, political Islam is often portrayed as a monolithic movement embodying fundamentalism and theocracy, an image magnified by the rise of populism and xenophobia in the United States and Europe. Reality, however, is far more complicated. Political Islam has evolved considerably since its spectacular rise decades ago, and today it features divergent viewpoints and contributes to discrete but simultaneous developments worldwide. This is a new political Islam, more global in scope but increasingly local in action. Emmanuel Karagiannis offers a sophisticated analysis of the different manifestations of contemporary Islamism. In a context of global economic and social changes, he finds local manifestations of Islamism are becoming both more prevalent and more diverse. Many Islamists turn to activism, still more participate formally in the democratic process, and some, in far fewer numbers, advocate violence - a wide range of political persuasions and tactics that reflects real and perceived political, cultural, and identity differences. Synthesizing prodigious research and integrating insights from the globalization debate and the literature on social movements, The New Political Islam seeks to explain the processes and factors leading to distinctive fusions of "the global" and "the local" across the landscape of contemporary political Islam. Examining converts to Islam in Europe, nonviolent Islamists with global reach, Islamist parties in Turkey, Egypt, and Tunisia, and militant Shia and Sunni groups in Syria and Iraq, Karagiannis demonstrates that Islamists have embraced ideas and practices from the global marketplace and have attempted to implement them locally. He looks closely at the ways in which Islamist activists, politicians, and militants have utilized the language of human rights, democracy, and justice to gain influence and popular support and to contend for power.

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This edited volume conceives of International Relations (IR) not as a unilateral project, but more as an intellectual platform. Its contributors explore Islamic contributions to this field, addressing the theories and practices of the Islamic civilization and of Muslim societies with regards to international affairs and to the discipline of IR. (Publisher's description)

Muslims who explore sources of morality other than Islam are threatened with death, and Muslim women who escape the virgins' cage are branded whores. So asserts Hirsi Ali's meditation on Islam and the role of women, the rights of the individual, the roots of fanaticism, and Western policies toward Islamic countries and immigrant communities. This controversial book is a call to arms for the emancipation of women from religious and cultural oppression and from an outdated cult of virginity. It is a defiant call for clear thinking and for an Islamic Enlightenment. But it is also the courageous story of how Hirsi Ali herself fought back against everyone who tried to force her to submit to a traditional Muslim woman's life and how she became a voice of reform. She relates her experiences as a Muslim woman so that oppressed Muslim women can take heart and seek their own liberation.--From publisher description

Thirty years after the inauguration of the first great mosque in modern-day Madrid, namely the Abu Bakr mosque in the district of Estrecho, opening more places of worship is no longer the main or only demand that Muslim communities are making in urban spaces. Visibility in public spaces is now their main concern. This is mostly due to the process of consolidation and institutionalization of Islamic associations and increasing, albeit slow, official recognition by governmental authorities. This article reviews the past and present of this process, contextualizing it in the current political and normative framework, consider­ing the case studies of two Muslim communities which use public space for religious festivities. The first is the celebration of the Eid al-Fitr by Bangladeshi Muslims at the local sports centre in the multicultural district of Lavapiés; the second is the com­memoration of the martyrdom of the Imam Husain in Puerta de Sol by Fundación Alulbeyt España, a Twelver Shiite cultural centre. ; Casi treinta años después de la inauguración de la primera gran mezquita del Madrid contemporáneo, la de Abu Bakr en el barrio de Estrecho, la apertura de lugares de culto como primer espacio comunitario no es ya siempre la principal y exclu­siva demanda de las comunidades musulmanas en el espacio urbano, entre las cuales se encuentran ahora su visibilización en el espacio público, resultado en gran medida de la consolidación e institucionalización del tejido asociativo islámico y de un progre­sivo, aunque lento, reconocimiento institucional. Este texto repasa el pasado-presente de este proceso, para a continuación con­textualizarlo en el actual marco político y normativo donde se insertan dos estudios de caso de utilización de los espacios públicos por comunidades musulmanas coincidiendo con alguna festividad religiosa: la celebración por la comunidad bangladesí del Eid al-Fitr en las canchas deportivas municipales del barrio multicultural de Lavapiés; y la conmemoración por la Fundación Alulbeyt España, una organización chií duodecimana, del martirio del Imam Husain en la céntrica Puerta de Sol.