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Showing 1 to 20 of 87 for “"Islamist"”.
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Islamist Radicals in Latin America
… criminal activity and is an area where radical Islamist groups are known to operate. This thesis analyzes why Latin America is an appealing location for terrorists and determines if there is potential for radical Islamist groups to align with criminal entities native to Latin America. …
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Islamist Biographies: Religious Experiences of South African Muslim Activists
… activists who were involved in the South African Islamist movement from the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s - tracking their trajectories up till the present. These Islamist biographies can be likened to journeys which include moments of fulfilment, doubt, ambivalence and a grappling to make sense of the …
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Islamist and Secularist Women in Egyptian Politics: Convergence or Divergence?
… exclude women from political participation? Are Islamists, who have their political agenda, supporting or oppressing women? Are Islamist feminists, who are a contemporary phenomenon especially in the Middle East, politically active or inactive? Are liberal or secular women in Egypt more …
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Islamist Party Mobilization: Tunisia’s Ennahda and Algeria’s HMS Compared, 1989-2014
The study aims to explore how Islamist parties mobilize citizens in electoral authoritarian systems. Specifically, I analyze how Islamist parties develop identity, outreach, structure, and linkages to wide sections of the population, so that when the political opportunity presents itself, people …
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Man, Society, and Knowledge in the Islamist discourse of Sayyid Qutb
… out. Moreover, Qutb also provided the modern Islamist with a vocabulary that gives voice to the economic and social concerns of an emerging lower middle class aspiring to fulfill its mundane dreams in modern, mid-20th century Egypt. The language Qutb used in his works was not the language of …
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The radical tradition in Islam and the Islamist tendency in contemporary Egypt
This is a study of the response of Muslim societies to crises. It examines the conditions under which Islam becomes a force for revolution, identifies those Islamic concepts and attitudes which promote or inhibit revolutionary sentiments and activity, and looks at the role played by the …
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Understanding Islamist Terrorism: What It Is and How It Threatens the United States of America
… of September 11, 2001 brought the threat of Islamist terrorism to the fore in the minds of American policymakers and strategic thinkers. As the War on Terror unfolded, it has become clear that this new threat is radically different from the monolithic threat of the Cold War era. This thesis …
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Islamic Authority and the Articulation of Jihad: Approaching Jihadist Authority through the Islamist Magazine Inspire
This thesis examines the impact of changing views of legitimate Islamic authority on conceptions of jihad. Spearheaded by militant Sunni movements, jihad in the modern era has taken on new purposes and practices that more closely resemble general understandings of terrorism than the regulated forms …
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The social base of divide-and-rule : left-Islamist opposition alliances in North Africa’s Arab Spring
… by comparing alliances between leftist and Islamist opposition parties in Tunisia, Morocco, and Mauritania. In Tunisia, leftists have joined forces with Islamists on the national-level. In Morocco and Mauritania, such alliances have formed and endured in municipalities and labor unions but …
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A critique of contemporary Islamist political philosophy with specific regard to the concept of Islamic state
The Islamist/fundamentalist movements of the twentieth century, such as the Jama' ate Islami of Pakistan, the Ikhwan al Muslimin of Egypt, and the FIS of Algeria, have committed themselves to the ideal of attaining an 'Islamic state'. In their quest for the realization of this objective, they …
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The Dynamics of Violent Escalation and De-escalation: Explaining Change in Islamist Strategies in Egypt and Indonesia
<p>This study examines how change happens within Islamist organizations and what causal mechanisms underlie the adoption or abandonment of violent tactics. The project argues that ideological and tactical changes are determined by the interaction of five factors: founding principles, the extent to …
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An investigation into what role anti-Americanism plays in attracting Middle Eastern Arab Sunni men to Islamist extremism, in the contemporary era
In order to address this research question at the appropriate length, breadth and depth, it has necessitated the use of texts and academic debates across ‘time and space’, both ancient and modern, crossing a range of disciplines and encompassing Western and Middle Eastern academic sources.
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Debating Islamism, modernity and the West in Turkey. The role of the Welfare Party
… in 1998. Since the party was the most important Islamist organisation in Turkey. it was at an important point of interaction between Islamism and modernity. The study tries to determine the significance of the WP discourse on key modernisation issues by answering such questions as how the WP …
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The role of Islam in the Uzbek politics
… case study to question whether it was a radical Islamist revolt against a secular regime, as labeled by the government some scholars argued, or a reaction to years of oppression and economic strife. The state blamed the protestors as being radicals. However, demonstrators asserted that they were …
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Recruiting for the Cause(s): Extremist Propaganda and Radicalization Discourse
… I ask to what extent does propaganda from non-Islamist extremist groups follow similar discursive patterns and convey similar ideologies to that in Islamist extremist propaganda? And what explains the differences between the discursive patterns, if any? Drawing from broader theories of …
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Islamism and Islamic fundamentalism in the Middle East and North Africa
… East and North Africa. In the name of Islam, Islamist groups have embarked upon a path of violence and terrorism. The primary objective of the thesis is to critically analyse the ideas, approaches and implications of Islamism. Firstly, by examining whether economic despair breeds Islamism or …
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