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Islamism

March 29, 2023

This article is about an Islamic political ideology and political movement. For the religion itself, see Islam.
"Sunni Islamism" redirects here. For the religious beliefs referred to by similar terms, see Sunni Islam.

Islamism (also often called political Islam or Islamic fundamentalism)[1] is a religio-political ideology. There is no consensus definition of Islamism,[2] which has many varieties and alternative names.[2] The use of the term is objected to by some as derogatory[3] and by others as so broad and flexible as to have lost its meaning.[4] In its original formulation, Islamism described an ideology seeking to revive Islam to its past assertiveness and glory,[5] purifying it of foreign elements, reasserting its role into “social and political as well as personal life";[6] and in particular “reordering government and society in accordance with laws prescribed by Islam" (aka Sharia).[7][8][9][10] According to at least one observer (author Robin Wright), Islamist movements have "arguably altered the Middle East more than any trend since the modern states gained independence", redefining "politics and even borders".[11]

Central and prominent figures in 20th-century Islamism include Sayyid Rashid Rida,[12] Hassan al-Banna (founder of the Muslim Brotherhood), Sayyid Qutb, Abul A'la Maududi,[13] Ruhollah Khomeini (founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran), Hassan Al-Turabi.[14]

Al-Banna and Maududi called for a "reformist" strategy to re-Islamizing society through grassroots social and political activism.[15][16] Other Islamists (Al-Turabi) have advocated a "revolutionary" strategy of Islamizing society through exercise of state power,[15] or for combining grassroots Islamization with violent revolution (Sayyid Qutb). The term has been applied to non-state reform movements, political parties, militias and revolutionary groups.[17] Islamists emphasize the implementation of sharia,[18] pan-Islamic political unity,[18] the creation of Islamic states,[19] (eventually unified), and rejection of non-Muslim influences—particularly Western or universal economic, military, political, social, or cultural.

At least one author (Graham E. Fuller) has argued for a broader notion of Islamism as a form of identity politics, involving "support for [Muslim] identity, authenticity, broader regionalism, revivalism, [and] revitalization of the community."[20] Islamists themselves prefer terms such as "Islamic movement",[21] or "Islamic activism" to "Islamism", objecting to the insinuation that Islamism is anything other than Islam renewed and revived.[22] In public and academic contexts,[23] the term "Islamism" has been criticized as having been given connotations of violence, extremism, and violations of human rights, by the Western mass media, leading to Islamophobia and stereotyping.[1]

Following the Arab Spring, many post-Islamist currents became heavily involved in democratic politics,[11][24] while others spawned "the most aggressive and ambitious Islamist militia" to date, such as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).[11]

Terminology

Originally the term Islamism was simply used to mean the religion of Islam, not an ideology or movement. It first appeared in the English language as Islamismus in 1696, and as Islamism in 1712.[25] The term appears in the U.S. Supreme Court decision in In Re Ross (1891). By the turn of the twentieth century the shorter and purely Arabic term "Islam" had begun to displace it, and by 1938, when Orientalist scholars completed The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Islamism seems to have virtually disappeared from English usage.[citation needed] The term remained "practically absent from the vocabulary" of scholars, writers or journalists until the Iranian Islamic Revolution of 1978–79, which brought Ayatollah Khomeini's concept of "Islamic government" to Iran.[26]

Definitions

Islamism has been defined as:

  • "the belief that Islam should guide social and political as well as personal life" (Sheri Berman);[6]
  • the belief that Islam should influence political systems (Cambridge English Dictionary);[27]
  • "the [Islamic] ideology that guides society as a whole and that [teaches] law must be in conformity with the Islamic sharia", (W E. Shepard);[8]
  • a form of "religionized politics" and an instance of religious fundamentalism that imagines an Islamic community claiming global hegemony for its values (Bassam Tibi);[28]
  • "political movement that favors reordering government and society in accordance with laws prescribed by Islam" (Associated Press stylebook)[7][3]
  • a political ideology which seeks to enforce Islamic precepts and norms as generally applicable rules for people's conduct; and whose adherents seek a state based on Islamic values and laws (sharia) and rejecting Western guiding principles, such as freedom of opinion, freedom of the press, artistic freedom and freedom of religion (Thomas Volk);[29]
  • a broad set of political ideologies that utilize and draw inspiration from Islamic symbols and traditions in pursuit of a sociopolitical objective—also called "political Islam" (Britannica);[30]
  • "[... has become shorthand for] 'Muslims we don't like.'" (Council on American–Islamic Relations—in complaint about AP's earlier definition of Islamist)[3]
    • In "Western popular discourse generally uses 'Islamism' when discussing the negative or 'that-which-is-bad' in Muslim communities. The signifier, 'Islam,' on the other hand, is reserved for the positive or neutral." (David Belt);[31]
  • a movement so broad and flexible it reaches out to "everything to everyone" in Islam, making it "unsustainable" (Tarek Osman);[4]
    • an alternative social provider to the poor masses;
    • an angry platform for the disillusioned young;
    • a loud trumpet-call announcing "a return to the pure religion" to those seeking an identity;
    • a "progressive, moderate religious platform" for the affluent and liberal;
    • ... and at the extremes, a violent vehicle for rejectionists and radicals.[4]
  • an Islamic "movement that seeks cultural differentiation from the West and reconnection with the pre-colonial symbolic universe", (François Burgat);[5]
  • "the active assertion and promotion of beliefs, prescriptions, laws or policies that are held to be Islamic in character," (International Crisis Group);[22]
  • a movement of "Muslims who draw upon the belief, symbols, and language of Islam to inspire, shape, and animate political activity;" which may contain moderate, tolerant, peaceful activists or those who "preach intolerance and espouse violence", (Robert H. Pelletreau);[32]
  • "All who seek to Islamize their environment, whether in relation to their lives in society, their family circumstances, or the workplace ...", (Roy Olivier).[33]

Overview

Relationship between Islam and Islamism

Further information: Political aspects of Islam

The relationship between Islam and the notions of Islamism has been a source of disagreement, with Islamists simply seeing their movement as a corrected version or a revival of Islam, while others denounce or dismiss Islamism as a modern deviation from Islam.

At least one observer (a writer for the International Crisis Group) maintains that "the conception of 'political Islam'" is a creation of Americans to explain the Iranian Islamic Revolution, ignoring the fact that (according to them) Islam is by definition political. In fact it is quietist/non-political Islam, not Islamism, that requires explanation, which the author gives—calling it an historical fluke of the "short-lived era of the heyday of secular Arab nationalism between 1945 and 1970".[34]

Hayri Abaza argues that the failure to distinguish Islam from Islamism leads many in the West to equate the two; they think that by supporting illiberal Islamic (Islamist) regimes, they are being respectful of Islam, to the detriment of those who seek to separate religion from politics.[35]

Another source distinguishes Islamist from Islamic by emphasizing the fact that Islam "refers to a religion and culture in existence over a millennium", whereas Islamism "is a political/religious phenomenon linked to the great events of the 20th century". Islamists have, at least at times, defined themselves as "Islamiyyoun/Islamists" to differentiate themselves from "Muslimun/Muslims".[36] Daniel Pipes describes Islamism as a modern ideology that owes more to European utopian political ideologies and "isms" than to the traditional Islamic religion.[37]

Influence

Few observers contest the immense influence of Islamism within the Muslim world.[38][39][40] Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, political movements based on the liberal ideology of free expression and democratic rule have led the opposition in other parts of the world such as Latin America, Eastern Europe and many parts of Asia; however "the simple fact is that political Islam currently reigns [circa 2002-3] as the most powerful ideological force across the Muslim world today".[41][42]

Some Western political scientists see the unchanging socio-economic condition in the Muslim world as a major factor. Olivier Roy believes "the socioeconomic realities that sustained the Islamist wave are still here and are not going to change: poverty, uprootedness, crises in values and identities, the decay of the educational systems, the North-South opposition, and the problem of immigrant integration into the host societies".[43]

The strength of Islamism also draws from the strength of religiosity in general in the Muslim world. Compared to other societies around the globe, "[w]hat is striking about the Islamic world is that ... it seems to have been the least penetrated by irreligion".[44] Where other peoples may look to the physical or social sciences for answers in areas which their ancestors regarded as best left to scripture, in the Muslim world, religion has become more encompassing, not less, as "in the last few decades, it has been the fundamentalists who have increasingly represented the cutting edge" of Muslim culture.[44]

Writing in 2009, German journalist Sonja Zekri described Islamists in Egypt and other Muslim countries as "extremely influential. ... They determine how one dresses, what one eats. In these areas, they are incredibly successful. ... Even if the Islamists never come to power, they have transformed their countries."[45] Political Islamists were described as "competing in the democratic public square in places like Turkey, Tunisia, Malaysia and Indonesia".[46]

Types

Islamism takes different forms and spans a wide range of strategies and tactics towards the powers in place—"destruction, opposition, collaboration, indifference"[47] that have varied as "circumstances have changed"[48][2]p. 54 —and thus is not a united movement.

Moderate and reformist Islamists who accept and work within the democratic process include parties like the Tunisian Ennahda Movement. Jamaat-e-Islami of Pakistan is basically a socio-political and Vanguard party working with in Pakistan's Democratic political process, but has also gained political influence through military coup d'états in the past.[47] Other Islamist groups like Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Palestine participate in the democratic and political process as well as armed attacks by their powerful paramilitary wing. Jihadist organizations like al-Qaeda and the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, and groups such as the Taliban, entirely reject democracy, seeing it as a form of kufr, calling for offensive jihad on a religious basis.

Another major division within Islamism is between what Graham E. Fuller has described as the conservative "guardians of the tradition" (Salafis, such as those in the Wahhabi movement) and the revolutionary "vanguard of change and Islamic reform" centered around the Muslim Brotherhood.[49] Olivier Roy argues that "Sunni pan-Islamism underwent a remarkable shift in the second half of the 20th century" when the Muslim Brotherhood movement and its focus on Islamisation of pan-Arabism was eclipsed by the Salafi movement with its emphasis on "sharia rather than the building of Islamic institutions".[50] Following the Arab Spring, Roy has described Islamism as "increasingly interdependent" with democracy in much of the Arab Muslim world, such that "neither can now survive without the other." While Islamist political culture itself may not be democratic, Islamists need democratic elections to maintain their legitimacy. At the same time, their popularity is such that no government can call itself democratic that excludes mainstream Islamist groups.[24]

Circa 2017, arguing distinctions between “radical/moderate” or “violent/peaceful” Islamism were "simplistic", scholar Morten Valbjørn put forth these "much more sophisticated typologies" of Islamism:[2]

resistance/revolutionary/refor­­mist Islamism,[51] Islahi-Ikhwani/Jihadi-Ikhwani/Islah-salafi/Jihadi-salafi Islamism;[52] refor­mist/revolutionary/societal/spiritual Islamism;[53] Third Worldist/Neo-Third Worldist Islamism;[54] Statist/Non-Statist Islamism,[55] Salafist Jihadi/Ikhwani Islamism,[56] or mainstream/irredentist jihadi/doctrinaire jihadi Islamism.[57]

Moderate and reformist Islamism

See also: Islamic democracy

Throughout the 80s and 90s, major moderate Islamist movements such as the Muslim Brotherhood and the Ennahda were excluded from democratic political participation. At least in part for that reason, Islamists attempted to overthrow the government in the Algerian Civil War (1991–2002) and terror campaign in Egypt in the 90s. These attempts were crushed and in the 21st century, Islamists turned increasingly to non-violent methods,[58] and "moderate Islamists" now make up the majority of the contemporary Islamist movements.[16][49][59]

Among some Islamists, Democracy has been harmonized with Islam by means of Shura (i.e. consultation). The tradition of consultation by the ruler being considered Sunnah of the prophet Muhammad,[59][60][61] (Majlis-ash-Shura being a common name for legislative bodies in Islamic countries).

Among the varying goals, strategies, and outcomes of "moderate Islamist movements" are a formal abandonment of their original vision of implementing sharia (also termed Post-Islamism) -- done by the Ennahda Movement of Tunisia,[62] and Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) of Indonesia.[63] Others, such as the National Congress of Sudan, have implemented the sharia with the foreign support from the conservative states (Saudi Arabia).[64][65]

According to one concept -- "inclusion-moderation theory" -- the interdependence of political outcome with goal and strategy means that the more moderate the Islamists become, the more likely they are to be politically included (or unsuppressed); and the more accommodating the government is, the less "extreme" Islamists become.[66] A prototype of harmonizing Islamist principles within the modern state framework was the "Turkish model", based on the rule of the Turkish Justice and Development Party (AKP) led by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan[67] Turkish model, however, has been considered came "unstuck" after recent purge and violations of democratic principles by the Erdoğan regime.[68][69] Critics of the concept, who include other democracy-rejecting Islamists, hold that Islamist aspirations are fundamentally incompatible with the democratic principles.

Salafi movement

Main article: Salafi movement

The contemporary Salafi movement is sometimes described as a variety of Islamism and sometimes as a different school of Islam,[70] such as a "phase between fundamentalism and Islamism".[71] Originally a reformist movement of Jamal al-Din al-Afghani, Muhammad Abdul, and Rashid Rida, that rejected maraboutism, the established schools of fiqh, and demanded individual interpretation (ijtihad) of the Quran and Sunnah;[72] it evolved into a movement embracing the conservative doctrines of the medieval Hanbali theologian Ibn Taymiyyah. While it has a quietist school that advocates societal reform through religious education and proselytizing, other salafi are activist (or haraki) or jihadist (Salafi jihadism, see below). The activist school, encourages non-violent political participation within the constitutional and political framework. The jihadist school is inspired by the ideology of Sayyid Qutb (Qutbism, see below), and rejects the legitimacy of secular institutions and promotes the revolution in order to pave the way for the establishment of a new Caliphate.[73]

The politically active Salafi school, Salafi activism believes that politics is a field which requires Salafi principles to be applied as well, in the same manner with other aspects of society and life.[73] Salafi activism originated in the 50s to 60s Saudi Arabia, where many Muslim Brothers had taken refuge from the prosecution by the Nasser regime.[74] There, Muslim Brothers' Islamism had synthesized with Salafism, and led to the creation of the Salafi activist trend exemplified by the Sahwa movement in the 80s,[73] promulgated by Safar Al-Hawali and Salman al-Ouda. Today, this school makes up the majority of Salafism.[75] There are many active Salafist political parties throughout the Muslim world, including the Al Islah Party of Yemen and Al Asalah of Bahrain.

Wahhabism

Main article: Wahhabism

One of the antecedents of the contemporary Salafi movement is Wahhabism, which traces back to the 18th-century reform movement in Arabia by Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab. Although having different roots, Wahhabism and Salafism are considered more or less merged by the 1960s in Saudi Arabia.[76][77] In the process, Salafis and Wahhabis have greatly influenced each other, and today they share mostly similar religious outlooks.[77] In effect, Wahhabism has transformed into the Saudi brand of the Salafi movement.[78][79] From the political perspective, Wahhabism is marked in its teaching of bay'ah, which requires Muslims to present an allegiance to the ruler of the society.[80] Wahhabis have traditionally given their allegiance to the House of Saud, and this has made them apolitical in Saudi Arabia.[81] However, there are small numbers of other strains including Salafi Jihadist offshoot which decline to present an allegiance to the House of Saud.[81][82] Due to their traditional monarchist stance of loyalty to the Saudi King, Wahhabi clerics discourage revolutionary themes and activities related to social justice, anticolonialism, or economic equality, expounded upon by most Islamists.[83] Historically, Wahhabism was state-sponsored and internationally propagated by Saudi Arabia with the help of funding from mainly Saudi petroleum exports,[84] leading to the "explosive growth" of its influence (and subsequently, the influence of Salafism) from the 70s (a phenomenon often dubbed as Petro-Islam).[85] Today, both Wahhabism and Salafism exert their influence worldwide, and they have been indirectly contributing to the upsurge of Salafi Jihadism as well.[85]

Militant Islamism/Jihadism

Main article: Jihadism
See also: Islamic terrorism and Islamic extremism

Qutbism

Main article: Qutbism

Qutbism is a term used by Western political scientists to refer to the Jihadist ideology formulated by Sayyid Qutb, an influential figure of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt during the 50s and 60s, which justifies the use of violence in order to push the Islamist goals.[86] Based on the two concepts, Qutbism promotes engagement against the state apparatus in order to topple down its regime. Fusion of Qutbism and Salafi Movement had resulted in the development of Salafi jihadism (see below).[87]

Qutbism is considered a product of the extreme repression experienced by Qutb and his fellow Muslim Brothers under the Nasser regime, which was resulted from an alleged 1954 Muslim Brothers plot to assassinate Nasser. During the repression, thousands of Muslim Brothers were imprisoned, many of them, including Qutb, tortured and held in concentration camps.[74] Under this condition, Qutb had cultivated his Islamist ideology in his seminal work Ma'alim fi-l-Tariq (Milestones), in which he equated the Muslims within the Nasser regime with secularism and the West, and described the contemporary situation as beiing a state of jahiliyyah (period of time before the advent of Islam).[88] Although Qutb was executed before the completion of his ideology,[88] his ideas was disseminated and continuously expanded by the later generations, among them Abdullah Yusuf Azzam and Ayman Al-Zawahiri, who was a student of Qutb's brother Muhammad Qutb and later became a mentor of Osama bin Laden.[89][90] Al-Zawahiri was considered "the purity of Qutb's character and the torment he had endured in prison," and had played an extensive role in the normalization of offensive Jihad within the Qutbist discourse.[91]

Salafi Jihadism

Main article: Salafi jihadism

Salafi jihadism is a term coined by Gilles Kepel in 2002, referring to the ideology which actively promotes and conducts violence and terrorism in order to pursue the establishment of an Islamic state or a new Caliphate.[92][93] Today, the term is often simplified to Jihadism or Jihadist movement.[citation needed] It is a hybrid ideology between Qutbism, Salafism, Wahhabism and other minor Islamist strains.[87][94] Qutbism taught by scholars like Abdullah Azzam provided the political intellectual underpinnings with concepts like Salafism and Wahhabism providing the religious intellectual input.[87][note 1] Salafi Jihadism makes up a minority of the contemporary Islamist movements.[96]

 
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Raqqa, Syria, 2014

Distinct characteristics of Salafi Jihadism noted by Robin Wright include the formal process of taking bay'ah (oath of allegiance) to the leader, which is inspired by Hadiths and early Muslim practice and included in Wahhabi teaching.[97] Another characteristic is its flexibility to cut ties with the less-popular movements when its strategically or financially convenient, exemplified by the relations between al-Qaeda and al-Nusra Front.[97] Other marked developments of Salafi Jihadism include the concepts of "near enemy" and "far enemy". "Near enemy" connotes the despotic regime(s) occupying the Muslim society, and the term was coined by Mohammed Abdul-Salam Farag in order to justify the assassination of Anwar al-Sadat by the Salafi Jihadi organization Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ) in 1981.[98] Later, the concept of "far enemy" which connotes the West was introduced and formally declared by al-Qaeda in 1996.[98][99]

Salafi Jihadism emerged during the 80s when the Soviet invaded Afghanistan.[100] Local mujahideen had extracted financial, logistical and military support from Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and the United States. Later, Osama bin Laden established al-Qaeda as a transnational Salafi Jihadi organization in 1988 to capitalize on this financial, logistical and military network and to expand their operation.[100] The ideology had seen its rise during the 90s when the Muslim world experienced numerous geopolitical crisis,[100] notably the Algerian Civil War (1991–2002), Bosnian War (1992–1995), and the First Chechen War (1994–1996). Within these conflicts, political Islam often acted as a mobilizing factor for the local belligerents, who demanded financial, logistical and military support from al-Qaeda, in the exchange for active proliferation of the ideology.[100] After the 1998 bombings of US embassies, September 11 attacks (2001), the US-led invasion of Afghanistan (2001) and Iraq (2003), Salafi Jihadism had seen its momentum. However, it got devastated by the US counterterrorism operations, culminating in bin Laden's death in 2011.[100] After the Arab Spring (2011) and subsequent Syrian Civil War (2011–present), the remnants of al-Qaeda franchise in Iraq had restored their capacity, which rapidly developed into the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, spreading its influence throughout the conflict zones of MENA region and the globe.

Explanations for the growth and popularity of Islamism

Sociological and political explanations

Charitable work

Islamist movements such as the Muslim Brotherhood, "are well known for providing shelters, educational assistance, free or low cost medical clinics, housing assistance to students from out of town, student advisory groups, facilitation of inexpensive mass marriage ceremonies to avoid prohibitively costly dowry demands, legal assistance, sports facilities, and women's groups." All this compares very favourably against incompetent, inefficient, or neglectful governments whose commitment to social justice is limited to rhetoric.[101]

Dissatisfaction with the status quo

The Arab world—the original heart of the Muslim world—has been afflicted with economic stagnation. For example, it has been estimated that in the mid-1990s the exports of Finland, a country of five million, exceeded those of the entire Arab world of 260 million, excluding oil revenue.[102] Strong population growth combined with economic stagnation has created urban agglomerations in Cairo, Istanbul, Tehran, Karachi, Dhaka, and Jakarta each with well over 12 million citizens, millions of them young and unemployed or underemployed.[103] Such a demographic, alienated from the westernized ways of the urban elite, but uprooted from the comforts and more passive traditions of the villages they came from, is understandably favourably disposed to an Islamic system promising a better world[104]—an ideology providing an "emotionally familiar basis for group identity, solidarity, and exclusion; an acceptable basis for legitimacy and authority; an immediately intelligible formulation of principles for both a critique of the present and a program for the future."[105]

Silencing of leftist opposition

In the post-colonial era, many Muslim-majority states such as Indonesia, Egypt, Syria, and Iraq, were ruled by authoritarian regimes which were often continuously dominated by the same individuals or their cadres for decades. Simultaneously, the military played a significant part in the government decisions in many of these states (the outsized role played by the military could be seen also in democratic Turkey).[106]

The authoritarian regimes, backed by military support, took extra measures to silence leftist opposition forces, often with the help of foreign powers. Silencing of leftist opposition deprived the masses a channel to express their economic grievances and frustration toward the lack of democratic processes.[106]

As a result, in the post-Cold War era, civil society-based Islamist movements such as the Muslim Brotherhood were the only organizations capable to provide avenues of protest.[106]

The dynamic is repeated after the states had gone through a democratic transition. In Indonesia, some secular political parties have contributed to the enactment of religious bylaws in order to counter the popularity of Islamist oppositions.[107] In Egypt, during the short period of the democratic experiment, Muslim Brotherhood seized the momentum by being the most cohesive political movement among the opposition.[108]

Ideology

Strength of identity politics

 
Protests against Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, Christian governor of Jakarta, 2 December 2016

Islamism can also be described as part of identity politics, specifically the religiously oriented nationalism that emerged in the Third World in the 1970s: "resurgent Hinduism in India, Religious Zionism in Israel, militant Buddhism in Sri Lanka, resurgent Sikh nationalism in the Punjab, 'Liberation Theology' of Catholicism in Latin America, and Islamism in the Muslim world."[109]

Islamic revival

Further information: Islamic revival and Islam and modernity

The modern revival of Islamic devotion and the attraction to things Islamic can be traced to several events.

By the end of World War I, most Muslim states were seen to be dominated by the Christian-leaning Western states. Explanations offered were: that the claims of Islam were false and the Christian or post-Christian West had finally come up with another system that was superior; or Islam had failed through not being true to itself. The second explanation being preferred by Muslims, a redoubling of faith and devotion by the faithful was called for to reverse this tide.[110]

The connection between the lack of an Islamic spirit and the lack of victory was underscored by the disastrous defeat of Arab nationalist-led armies fighting Israel under the slogan "Land, Sea and Air" in the 1967 Six-Day War, compared to the (perceived) near-victory of the Yom Kippur War six years later. In that war the military's slogan was "God is Great".[111]

Along with the Yom Kippur War came the Arab oil embargo where the (Muslim) Persian Gulf oil-producing states' dramatic decision to cut back on production and quadruple the price of oil, made the terms oil, Arabs and Islam synonymous with power throughout the world, and especially in the Muslim world's public imagination.[112] Many Muslims believe as Saudi Prince Saud al Faisal did that the hundreds of billions of dollars in wealth obtained from the Persian Gulf's huge oil deposits were nothing less than a gift from God to the Islamic faithful.[113]

As the Islamic revival gained momentum, governments such as Egypt's, which had previously repressed (and was still continuing to repress) Islamists, joined the bandwagon. They banned alcohol and flooded the airwaves with religious programming,[114] giving the movement even more exposure.

Alienation from the West

 
Salafi-Islamist protest against the anti-Islamic film Innocence of Muslims in Sydney, 15 September 2012

Muslim alienation from Western ways, including its political ways.[115]

  • The memory in Muslim societies of the many centuries of "cultural and institutional success" of Islamic civilization that have created an "intense resistance to an alternative 'civilizational order'", such as Western civilization,[116]
  • The proximity of the core of the Muslim world to Europe and Christendom where it first conquered and then was conquered. Iberia in the eighth century, the Crusades which began in the eleventh century, then for centuries the Ottoman Empire, were all fields of war between Europe and Islam.[117]
In the words of Bernard Lewis:

For almost a thousand years, from the first Moorish landing in Spain to the second Turkish siege of Vienna, Europe was under constant threat from Islam. In the early centuries it was a double threat—not only of invasion and conquest, but also of conversion and assimilation. All but the easternmost provinces of the Islamic realm had been taken from Christian rulers, and the vast majority of the first Muslims west of Iran and Arabia were converts from Christianity ... Their loss was sorely felt and it heightened the fear that a similar fate was in store for Europe.[118]

The Islamic world felt its own anger and resentment at the much more recent technological superiority of westerners who,

are the perpetual teachers; we, the perpetual students. Generation after generation, this asymmetry has generated an inferiority complex, forever exacerbated by the fact that their innovations progress at a faster pace than we can absorb them. ... The best tool to reverse the inferiority complex to a superiority complex ... Islam would give the whole culture a sense of dignity.[119]

For Islamists, the primary threat of the West is cultural rather than political or economic. Cultural dependency robs one of faith and identity and thus destroys Islam and the Islamic community (ummah) far more effectively than political rule.[120]
  • The end of the Cold War and Soviet occupation of Afghanistan has eliminated the common atheist Communist enemy uniting some religious Muslims and the capitalist west.[121]

Geopolitics

State-sponsorship

Saudi Arabia
See also: International propagation of conservative Sunni Islam

Starting in the mid-1970s the Islamic resurgence was funded by an abundance of money from Saudi Arabian oil exports.[122] The tens of billions of dollars in "petro-Islam" largesse obtained from the recently heightened price of oil funded an estimated "90% of the expenses of the entire faith."[123]

Throughout the Muslim world, religious institutions for people both young and old, from children's madrassas to high-level scholarships received Saudi funding,[124] "books, scholarships, fellowships, and mosques" (for example, "more than 1500 mosques were built and paid for with money obtained from public Saudi funds over the last 50 years"),[125] along with training in the Kingdom for the preachers and teachers who went on to teach and work at these universities, schools, mosques, etc.[126]

The funding was also used to reward journalists and academics who followed the Saudis' strict interpretation of Islam; and satellite campuses were built around Egypt for Al-Azhar University, the world's oldest and most influential Islamic university.[127]

The interpretation of Islam promoted by this funding was the strict, conservative Saudi-based Wahhabism or Salafism. In its harshest form it preached that Muslims should not only "always oppose" infidels "in every way," but "hate them for their religion ... for Allah's sake," that democracy "is responsible for all the horrible wars of the 20th century," that Shia and other non-Wahhabi Muslims were infidels, etc.[128] While this effort has by no means converted all, or even most Muslims to the Wahhabist interpretation of Islam, it has done much to overwhelm more moderate local interpretations, and has set the Saudi-interpretation of Islam as the "gold standard" of religion in minds of some or many Muslims.[129]

Qatar
Further information: Muslim Brotherhood

Though the much smaller Qatar could not provide the same level of funding as Saudi Arabia, it was also a petroleum exporter and also sponsored Islamist groups. Qatar backed the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt even after the 2013 overthrow of the MB regime of Mohamed Morsi, with Qatar ruler Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani denouncing the coup.[130] In June 2016, Mohamed Morsi was sentenced to a life sentence for passing state secrets to Qatar.[131][132]

Qatar has also backed Islamist factions in Libya, Syria and Yemen.

In Libya in particular, Qatar has supported the Islamist government established in Tripoli.[133] During the 2011 revolution that ousted President Muammar Gaddafi, Qatar provided "tens of millions of dollars in aid, military training and more than 20,000 tons of weapons" to anti-Gaddafi rebels and Islamist militias in particular. The flow of weapons was not suspended after Gaddafi's government was removed.[134][135] Qatar supported cleric Ali al-Sallabi, the leader of the Islamist militia "February 17 Katiba" Ismail al-Sallabi, and the Tripoli Military Council leader Abdel Hakim Belhaj.[134][135]

Hamas, in Palestine, has received considerable financial support.[136] hosting Hamas' politburo since 2012; which has met with international delegations on Qatari territory.[135] More recently, Qatar has been accused of channeling material support to Hamas' terrorist operations under the guise of assisting Gaza reconstruction.[137] (Hamas politburo maintains that most of Qatar's support has been collected through charities and popular committees.)[138]

Western support of Islamism during the Cold War

Further information: CIA activities in Afghanistan, Operation Cyclone, and Afghan mujahideen
 
Afghan mujahideen representatives with President Ronald Reagan at the White House in 1983.

During the Cold War, particularly during the 1950s, during the 1960s, and during most of the 1970s, the U.S. and other countries in the Western Bloc occasionally attempted to take advantage of the rise of Islamic revival fervor by directing it against leftist/communist/nationalist insurgents/adversaries, particularly against the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc states because a part of the Communist ideology was atheistic.

During a September 1957 White House meeting between U.S. President Eisenhower and senior U.S. foreign policy officials, the president and the officials decided to use the communists' lack of religion against them by establishing a secret task force which would deliver weapons to Middle Eastern states, including Saudi Arabia. "We should do everything possible to stress the 'holy war' aspect" that has currency in the Middle East, President Eisenhower stated in agreement.[139]

During the 1970s and sometimes later, this aid sometimes went to fledgling Islamists and Islamist groups that later came to be seen as dangerous enemies.[140] The US spent billions of dollars to aid the mujahideen Muslim Afghanistan enemies of the Soviet Union, and non-Afghan veterans of the war returned home with their prestige, "experience, ideology, and weapons", and had considerable impact.[141]

Although it is a strong opponent of Israel's existence, Hamas, officially founded in 1987, traces its origins back to institutions and clerics which were supported by Israel in the 1970s and 1980s. Israel tolerated and supported Islamist movements in Gaza, with figures like Ahmed Yassin, as Israel perceived them preferable to the secular and then more powerful al-Fatah with the PLO.[142][143]

Egyptian President Anwar Sadat – whose policies included opening Egypt to Western investment (infitah); transferring Egypt's allegiance from the Soviet Union to the United States; and making peace with Israel—released Islamists from prison and welcomed home exiles in tacit exchange for political support in his struggle against leftists. His "encouraging of the emergence of the Islamist movement" was said to have been "imitated by many other Muslim leaders in the years that followed."[144][145] This "gentlemen's agreement" between Sadat and Islamists broke down in 1975 but not before Islamists came to completely dominate university student unions. Sadat was later assassinated and a formidable insurgency was formed in Egypt in the 1990s. The French government has also been reported to have promoted Islamist preachers "in the hope of channeling Muslim energies into zones of piety and charity."[140]

History

Main article: History of Islamism

Predecessor movements

Some Islamic revivalist movements and leaders which pre-date Islamism but share some characteristics with it include:

Early history

The end of the 19th century saw the dismemberment of most of the Muslim Ottoman Empire by non-Muslim European colonial powers,[154] despite the empire's spending massive sums on Western civilian and military technology to try to modernize and compete with the encroaching European powers. In the process the Ottomans went deep into debt to these powers.

Preaching Islamic alternatives to this humiliating decline were Jamal ad-din al-Afghani (1837–97), Muhammad Abduh (1849–1905) and Rashid Rida (1865–1935) .[155] Muhammad Abduh and Al-Afghani formed the beginning of the early Islamist movement.[156][157][158][159] Abduh's student, Rashid Rida, is widely regarded as one of "the ideological forefathers" of contemporary Islamist movements.[160]

These early Salafiyya, Rashid Rida, Hassan al-Banna,and Mustafa al-Siba’i, preached that a truly Islamic society would follow sharia law, reject taqlid, (the blind imitation of earlier authorities),[161] restore the Caliphate.[162]

Sayyid Rashid Rida

See also: Islamic Political Doctrines of Rashid Rida and The Caliphate or the Supreme Imamate (book)

Syrian-Egyptian Islamic scholar Muhammad Rashid Rida first articulated the modern concept of an Islamic state, influencing the Muslim Brotherhood and other Sunni Islamist movements.

In his influential book al-Khilafa aw al-Imama al-'Uzma ("The Caliphate or the Grand Imamate"); Rida explained that that societies that properly obeyed Sharia would be successful alternatives to the disorder and injustice of both capitalism and socialism.[163]

This society would be ruled by a Caliphate; Sharia (Islamic laws) would be applied by the ruling Khalifa who would supervise Sharia in a partnership with the Mujtahid ulema (juristic clergy trained in Islamic jurisprudence). They would engage in Ijtihad by evaluating scripture and govern through shura (consultation).[164] With the Khilafa providing true Islamic governance, Islamic civilization would be revitalised, the political and legal independence of the Muslim umma (community of Muslim believers) would be restored, and the heretical influences of Sufism would be cleansed from Islam.[165] This doctrine would become the blueprint of future Islamist movements.[166]

Muhammad Iqbal

Main article: Muhammad Iqbal
See also: Two-nation theory

Muhammad Iqbal was a philosopher, poet and politician[167] in British India. Though best known as an eminent poet,[167][168] he is widely regarded as having inspired the Islamic Nationalism and Pakistan Movement in British India.[167][169][170]

Iqbal expressed fears that not only would secularism and secular nationalism weaken the spiritual foundations of Islam and Muslim society, but that India's Hindu-majority population would crowd out Muslim heritage, culture and political influence. He was elected president of the Muslim League in 1930 and in 1932. In his Allahabad Address on 29 December 1930, Iqbal outlined a vision of an independent state for Muslim-majority provinces in northwestern India. This address later inspired the Pakistan movement.

In addition to his Pakistani activism, in his travels to Egypt, Afghanistan, Palestine and Syria, he promoted ideas of greater Islamic political co-operation and unity, calling for the shedding of national differences

The thoughts and vision of Iqbal later influenced many reformist Islamists, e.g., Muhammad Asad, Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi and Ali Shariati.

Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi

Main article: Abul Ala Maududi
See also: Jamaat-e-Islami

Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi[171][172] was an important early twentieth-century figure in the Islamic revival in India, and then after independence from Britain, in Pakistan. Trained as a lawyer he worked as a journalist, and gained a wide audience with his books (translated into many languages) which placed Islam in a modern context. Maududi also founded the Jamaat-e-Islami party in 1941 and remained its leader until 1972.

Maududi believed that Muslim society could not be Islamic without Sharia, and the establishment of an Islamic state to enforce it.[173] The state would be based on the principles of: tawhid (unity of God), risala (prophethood) and khilafa (caliphate).[174][175][176][177] Maududi was uninterested in violence or populist policies such as came with the Iranian Revolution, but sought the gradual changing the hearts and minds of individuals from the top of society downward through an educational process or da'wah.[178][179] Maududi believed that Islam was all-encompassing: "Everything in the universe is 'Muslim' for it obeys God by submission to His laws."[180] "The man who denies God is called Kafir (concealer) because he conceals by his disbelief what is inherent in his nature and embalmed in his own soul."[181][182]

Muslim Brotherhood

Main article: Muslim Brotherhood

Roughly contemporaneous with Maududi was the founding of the Muslim Brotherhood in Ismailiyah, Egypt in 1928 by Hassan al Banna. His was arguably the first, largest and most influential modern Islamic political/religious organization. Under the motto "the Qur'an is our constitution,"[183] it sought Islamic revival through preaching and also by providing basic community services including schools, mosques, and workshops. Like Maududi, Al Banna believed in the necessity of government rule based on Shariah law implemented gradually and by persuasion, and of eliminating all Western imperialist influence in the Muslim world.[184]

Some elements of the Brotherhood, though perhaps against orders, did engage in violence against the government, and its founder Al-Banna was assassinated in 1949 in retaliation for the assassination of Egypt's premier Mahmud Fami Naqrashi three months earlier.[185] The Brotherhood has suffered periodic repression in Egypt and has been banned several times, in 1948 and several years later following confrontations with Egyptian president Gamal Abdul Nasser, who jailed thousands of members for several years.

The Brotherhood expanded to many other countries, becoming one of the most influential movements in the Islamic world, particularly in the Arab world. In Egypt, despite periodic repression—for many years it was described as "semi-legal"[186]—it was the only opposition group in Egypt able to field candidates during elections.[187] In the 2011–12 Egyptian parliamentary election, the political parties identified as "Islamist" (the Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party, Salafi Al-Nour Party and liberal Islamist Al-Wasat Party) won 75% of the total seats.[188] Mohamed Morsi, the candidate of the Muslim Brotherhood's party, was the first democratically elected president of Egypt. However, he was deposed during the 2013 Egyptian coup d'état, after mass protests against what were perceived as undemocratic moves by him. Today, the Muslim Brotherhood is designated as a terrorist organization by Bahrain, Russia, Syria, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

Sayyid Qutb (1906-1966)

 
Sayyid Qutb
Main article: Milestones (book)
See also: Sayyid Qutb and Qutbism

Qutb, a leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood movement, is considered by some (Fawaz A. Gerges) to be "the founding father and leading theoretician" of modern jihadists, such as Osama bin Laden.[189][190][191] He was executed for allegedly participating in a presidential assassination plot in 1966.

Maududi's political ideas influenced Sayyid Qutb. Like Maududi, he believed Sharia was crucial to Islam, so the restoration of its full enforcement was vital to the world. Since Sharia had not been fully enforced for centuries, Islam had "been extinct for a few centuries".[192] Qutb preached that Muslims must engage in a two-pronged attack of converting individuals through preaching Islam peacefully but also using "physical power and jihad".[193] Force was necessary because "those who have usurped the authority of God" would not give up their power without a fight.[194] Like Khomeini, whom he influenced he believed the West was engaged in a vicious centuries long war against Islam.[195]

Ascendancy in international politics

Six-Day War (1967)

Main article: Six-Day War

The quick and decisive defeat of the armies of several Arab states by one small non-Muslim country during the Six-Day War constituted a pivotal event in the Arab Muslim world. The defeat along with economic stagnation in the defeated countries, was blamed on the secular Arab nationalism of the ruling regimes. A steep and steady decline in the popularity and credibility of secular, socialist and nationalist politics ensued. Ba'athism, Arab socialism, and Arab nationalism suffered, and different democratic and anti-democratic Islamist movements inspired by Maududi and Sayyid Qutb gained ground.[196]

Iranian Revolution (1978–1979)

Main article: History of fundamentalist Islam in Iran
See also: Iranian Revolution and Guardianship of the Islamic Jurists

The first modern "Islamist state" (with the possible exception of Zia's Pakistan)[197] was established among the Shia of Iran. In a major shock to the rest of the world, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini overthrew the secular, oil-rich, well-armed, pro-American monarchy ruled by Shah Muhammad Reza Pahlavi.

Khomeini believed that complete imitation of the Prophet Mohammad and his successors such as Ali for the restoration of Sharia law was essential to Islam, but his vision was not for a peaceful, gradual transition. The secular, Westernizing Muslims were not misguided, but "agents" of the West serving Western interests, helping to "plunder" Muslim lands as part of a long-term conspiracy against Islam by Western governments.[198] It is the duty of Muslims to "destroy" "all traces" of any other sort of government other than true Islamic governance because these are "systems of unbelief".[199] "Troublesome" groups that cause "corruption in Muslim society," and damage "Islam and the Islamic state" will be eliminated just as The Prophet eliminated the Jews of Bani Qurayza.[200]

Khomeini and his followers helped translate the works of Mawdudi and Qutb into Persian and were influenced by them, but their views differed from them and other Sunni scholars in that:

  • As a Shia, Khomeini looked to Ali ibn Abī Tālib and Husayn ibn Ali Imam, but not Caliphs Abu Bakr, Omar or Uthman.
  • Khomeini talked not about restoring the Caliphate or Sunni Islamic democracy, but about establishing a state where the guardianship of the democratic or the dictatorial political system was performed by Shia jurists (ulama) as the successors of Shia Imams until the Mahdi returns from occultation. His concept of velayat-e-faqih ("guardianship of the [Islamic] jurist"), held that the leading Shia Muslim cleric in society—which Khomeini's mass of followers believed and chose to be himself—should serve as the supervisor of the state in order to protect or "guard" Islam and Sharia law from "innovation" and "anti-Islamic laws" passed by dictators or democratic parliaments.[198]

The revolution was influenced by Marxism through Islamist thought and also by writings that sought either to counter Marxism (Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr's work) or to integrate socialism and Islamism (Ali Shariati's work). A strong wing of the revolutionary leadership was made up of leftists or "radical populists", such as Ali Akbar Mohtashami-Pur.[201]

Support for the Iranian revolution in the Muslim world has waxed and waned. Initially enthusiasm was intense, and support in the Arab street for its anti-Zionism has been strong;[202] but "purges, executions, and atrocities tarnished its image",[203] as have periodic and widespread domestic unrest and protest.

The Islamic Republic has also maintained its hold on power in Iran in spite of US economic sanctions, and has created or assisted like-minded Shia terrorist groups in Iraq, Egypt, Syria, Jordan (SCIRI)[204][205] and Lebanon (Hezbollah)[206] (two Muslim countries that also have large Shiite populations).>

Grand Mosque seizure (1979)

Further information: Grand Mosque seizure

The strength of the Islamist movement was manifest in an event which might have seemed sure to turn Muslim public opinion against fundamentalism, but did just the opposite. In 1979 the Grand Mosque in Mecca Saudi Arabia was seized by an armed fundamentalist group and held for over a week. Scores were killed, including many pilgrim bystanders[207] in a gross violation of one of the most holy sites in Islam (and one where arms and violence are strictly forbidden).[208][209]

Instead of prompting a backlash against the movement from which the attackers originated, however, Saudi Arabia, already very conservative, responded by shoring up its fundamentalist credentials with even more Islamic restrictions. Crackdowns followed on everything from shopkeepers who did not close for prayer and newspapers that published pictures of women, to the selling of dolls, teddy bears (images of animate objects are considered haraam), and dog food (dogs are considered unclean).[210]

In other Muslim countries, blame for and wrath against the seizure was directed not against fundamentalists, but against Islamic fundamentalism's foremost geopolitical enemy—the United States. Ayatollah Khomeini sparked attacks on American embassies when he announced: "It is not beyond guessing that this is the work of criminal American imperialism and international Zionism", despite the fact that the object of the fundamentalists' revolt was the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, America's major ally in the region. Anti-American demonstrations followed in the Philippines, Turkey, Bangladesh, India, the UAE, Pakistan, and Kuwait. The US Embassy in Libya was burned by protesters chanting pro-Khomeini slogans and the embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan was burned to the ground.[211]

Soviet invasion of Afghanistan (1979–1989)

In 1979, the Soviet Union deployed its 40th Army into Afghanistan, attempting to suppress an Islamic rebellion against an allied Marxist regime in the Afghan Civil War. The conflict, pitting indigenous impoverished Muslims (mujahideen) against an anti-religious superpower, galvanized thousands of Muslims around the world to send aid and sometimes to go themselves to fight for their faith. Leading this pan-Islamic effort was Palestinian sheikh Abdullah Yusuf Azzam. While the military effectiveness of these "Afghan Arabs" was marginal, an estimated 16,000[212] to 35,000 Muslim volunteers[213] came from around the world to fight in Afghanistan.[213][214]

When the Soviet Union abandoned the Marxist Najibullah regime and withdrew from Afghanistan in 1989 (the regime finally fell in 1992), the victory was seen by many Muslims as the triumph of Islamic faith over superior military power and technology that could be duplicated elsewhere.

The jihadists gained legitimacy and prestige from their triumph both within the militant community and among ordinary Muslims, as well as the confidence to carry their jihad to other countries where they believed Muslims required assistance.[215]

The collapse of the Soviet Union itself, in 1991, was seen by many Islamists, including Bin Laden, as the defeat of a superpower at the hands of Islam. Concerning the $6 billion in aid given by the US and Pakistan's military training and intelligence support to the mujahideen,[216] bin Laden wrote: "[T]he US has no mentionable role" in "the collapse of the Soviet Union... rather the credit goes to God and the mujahidin" of Afghanistan.[217]

Persian Gulf War (1990–1991)

Another factor in the early 1990s that worked to radicalize the Islamist movement was the Gulf War, which brought several hundred thousand US and allied non-Muslim military personnel to Saudi Arabian soil to put an end to Saddam Hussein's occupation of Kuwait. Prior to 1990 Saudi Arabia played an important role in restraining the many Islamist groups that received its aid. But when Saddam, secularist and Ba'athist dictator of neighboring Iraq, attacked Kuwait (his enemy in the war), western troops came to protect the Saudi monarchy. Islamists accused the Saudi regime of being a puppet of the west.

These attacks resonated with conservative Muslims and the problem did not go away with Saddam's defeat either, since American troops remained stationed in the kingdom, and a de facto cooperation with the Palestinian-Israeli peace process developed. Saudi Arabia attempted to compensate for its loss of prestige among these groups by repressing those domestic Islamists who attacked it (bin Laden being a prime example), and increasing aid to Islamic groups (Islamist madrassas around the world and even aiding some violent Islamist groups) that did not, but its pre-war influence on behalf of moderation was greatly reduced.[218] One result of this was a campaign of attacks on government officials and tourists in Egypt, a bloody civil war in Algeria and Osama bin Laden's terror attacks climaxing in the 9/11 attack.[219]

2000s

By the beginning of the twenty first century, "the word secular, a label proudly worn" in the 1960s and 70s was "shunned" and "used to besmirch" political foes in Egypt and the rest of the Muslim world.[40] Islamists surpassed the small secular opposition parties in terms of "doggedness, courage," "risk-taking" or "organizational skills".[38] As of 2002,

In the Middle East and Pakistan, religious discourse dominates societies, the airwaves, and thinking about the world. Radical mosques have proliferated throughout Egypt. Book stores are dominated by works with religious themes ... The demand for sharia, the belief that their governments are unfaithful to Islam and that Islam is the answer to all problems, and the certainty that the West has declared war on Islam; these are the themes that dominate public discussion. Islamists may not control parliaments or government palaces, but they have occupied the popular imagination.[220]

Opinion polls in a variety of Islamic countries showed that significant majorities opposed groups like ISIS, but also wanted religion to play a greater role in public life.[221]

"Post-Islamism"

By 2020, approximately 40 years after the Islamic overthrow of the Shah of Iran and the seizure of the Grand Mosque by extremists, a number of observers (Olivier Roy, Mustafa Akyol, Nader Hashemi) detected a decline in the vigor and popularity of Islamism. Islamism had been an idealized/utopian concept to compare with the grim reality of the status quo, but in more than four decades it had failed to establish a "concrete and viable blueprint for society" despite repeated efforts (Olivier Roy);[222] and instead had left a less than inspiring track record of its impact on the world (Nader Hashemi).[223] Consequently, in addition to the trend towards moderation by Islamist or formerly Islamist parties (such as PKS of Indonesia, AKP of Turkey, and PAS of Malaysia) mentioned above, there has been a social/religious and sometimes political backlash against Islamist rule in countries like Turkey, Iran, and Sudan (Mustafa Akyol).[224]

Writing in 2020, Mustafa Akyol argues there has been a strong reaction by many Muslims against political Islam, including a weakening of religious faith—the very thing Islamism was intended to strengthen. He suggests this backlash against Islamism among Muslim youth has come from all the "terrible things" that have happened in the Arab world in the twenty first century "in the name of Islam"—such as the "sectarian civil wars in Syria, Iraq and Yemen".[224]

Polls taken by Arab Barometer in six Arab countries — Algeria, Egypt, Tunisia, Jordan, Iraq and Libya — found "Arabs are losing faith in religious parties and leaders." In 2018–19, in all six countries, fewer than 20% of those asked whether they trusted Islamist parties answered in the affirmative. That percentage had fallen (in all six countries) from when the same question was asked in 2012–14. Mosque attendance also declined more than 10 points on average, and the share of those Arabs describing themselves as "not religious" went from 8% in 2013 to 13% in 2018–19.[225][224] In Syria, Sham al-Ali reports "Rising apostasy among Syrian youths".[226][224]

Writing in 2021, Nader Hashemi notes that in Iraq, Sudan, Tunisia, Egypt, Gaza, Jordan and other places were Islamist parties have come to power or campaigned to, "one general theme stands. The popular prestige of political Islam has been tarnished by its experience with state power."[227][223] In Iran, hardline Ayatollah Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah Yazdi has complained, “Iranians are evading religious teachings and turning to secularism.”[228] Even Islamist terrorism was in decline and tended "to be local" rather than pan-Islamic. As of 2021, Al-Qaeda consisted of "a bunch of militias" with no effective central command (Fareed Zakaria).[227]

Rise of Islamism by country

Afghanistan (Taliban)

 
Flag of the Taliban
Main article: Taliban

In Afghanistan, the mujahideen's victory against the Soviet Union in the 1980s did not lead to justice and prosperity, due to a vicious and destructive civil war between political and tribal warlords, making Afghanistan one of the poorest countries on earth. In 1992, the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan ruled by communist forces collapsed, and democratic Islamist elements of mujahideen founded the Islamic State of Afghanistan. In 1996, a more conservative and anti-democratic Islamist movement known as the Taliban rose to power, defeated most of the warlords and took over roughly 80% of Afghanistan.

The Taliban were spawned by the thousands of madrasahs the Deobandi movement established for impoverished Afghan refugees and supported by governmental and religious groups in neighboring Pakistan.[229] The Taliban differed from other Islamist movements to the point where they might be more properly described as Islamic fundamentalist or neofundamentalist, interested in spreading "an idealized and systematized version of conservative tribal village customs" under the label of Sharia to an entire country.[citation needed] Their ideology was also described as being influenced by Wahhabism, and the extremist jihadism of their guest Osama bin Laden.[230][231]

The Taliban considered "politics" to be against Sharia and thus did not hold elections. They were led by Abdul Ghani Baradar and Mohammed Omar who was given the title "Amir al-Mu'minin" or Commander of the Faithful, and a pledge of loyalty by several hundred Taliban-selected Pashtun clergy in April 1996. Taliban were overwhelmingly Pashtun and were accused of not sharing power with the approximately 60% of Afghans who belonged to other ethnic groups. (see: Taliban#Ideology and aims)[232]

The Taliban's hosting of Osama bin Laden led to an American-organized attack which drove them from power following the 9/11 attacks.[233] The Taliban continued to fight a vigorous insurgency with suicide bombings and armed attacks being launched against NATO and Afghan government targets. The Taliban re-established control of the country in 2021 following a 2020 peace agreement with the United States and the overthrow of the US-backed government.

Algeria

See also: Algerian Civil War and List of Algerian massacres of the 1990s
 
The FIS emblem

In 1989, a broad Islamist coalition movement was founded in Algeria known as the FIS or Front Islamique de Salut (the Islamic Salvation Front). Led by Abbassi Madani, and a charismatic Islamist young preacher, Ali Belhadj, it was influenced by Salafism and the jihad in Afghanistan, as well as the Muslim Brotherhood. Taking advantage of economic failure and unpopular social liberalization and secularization of the ruling leftist-nationalist FLN government, it used its preaching to advocate the establishment of a legal system following Sharia law, economic liberalization and development program, education in Arabic rather than French, and gender segregation, with women staying home to alleviate the high rate of unemployment among young Algerian men. The FIS won sweeping victories in local elections and was set to win national elections in 1991, when voting was canceled by a military coup d'état.

As Islamists took up arms to overthrow the government, the FIS's leaders were arrested and it became overshadowed by Islamist guerrilla groups, particularly the Islamic Salvation Army, MIA and Armed Islamic Group (or GIA). A bloody and devastating civil war ensued in which between 150,000 and 200,000 people were killed over the next decade.

The civil war was not a victory for Islamists. By 2002 the main guerrilla groups had either been destroyed or had surrendered. The popularity of Islamist parties has declined to the point that "the Islamist candidate, Abdallah Jaballah, came a distant third with 5% of the vote" in the 2004 presidential election.[234]

Bangladesh

Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh is the largest Islamist party in the country and supports the implementation of Sharia law and promotes the country's main right-wing politics. Since 2000, the main political opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has been allied with it and another Islamic party, Islami Oikya Jote. Some of their leaders and supporters, including former ministers and MPs, have been hanged for alleged war crimes during Bangladesh's struggle for independence and speaking against the ruling Bangladesh Awami League.[235]

Belgium

In the 2012, the party named Islam had four candidates and they were elected in Molenbeek and Anderlecht.[236] In 2018, they ran candidates in 28 municipalities. Its policies include schools must offer halal food and women must be able to wear a headscarf anywhere.[237] Another of the Islam Party's goals is to separate men and women on public transportation. The party's president argues this policy will help protect women from sexual harassment.[238]

Denmark

See also: Islam in Denmark and Terrorism in Denmark

The Islamist movements gradually grew since the 1990s. The first Islamist groups and networks were predominantly influenced by the countries they immigrated from. Those involved had close contact with militant Islamists in the Middle East, South Asia and North Africa. Their operations had supporting militant groups financially as their first priority. Since the 1990s, people from the Islamist movements joined several conflicts to train with or participate in fighting with Islamist militants.[239]

In the 2000s the Islamist movements grew and by 2014 there were militants among the Islamist movements in Copenhagen, Aarhus and Odense. Several people from crime gangs join Islamist movements that sympathise with militant Islamism. The militant Islamist movement were estimated to encompass some hundreds in 2014.[239]

The Danish National Centre for Social Research released a report commissioned by the Ministry of Children, Integration and Social Affairs documenting 15 extremist groups operating in Denmark. Most were non-Muslim far-right or far-left groups, but five were Sunni Islamist groups. These Sunni Islamist groups include Hizb ut-Tahrir Denmark, Dawah-bærere (Dawah Carriers), Kaldet til Islam (The Call to Islam), Dawah-centret (The Dawah Centre), and the Muslimsk Ungdomscenter (The Muslim Youth Centre). All of these Sunni Islamist groups operate in Greater Copenhagen with the exception of Muslimsk Ungdomscenter, which operates in Aarhus. Altogether, roughly 195 to 415 Muslims belong to one of these organizations and most are young men.[240]

Egypt (Jihadism)

Main articles: Egyptian Islamist movements and Revolutionary Islamism in 20th-century Egypt

While Qutb's ideas became increasingly radical during his imprisonment prior to his execution in 1966, the leadership of the Brotherhood, led by Hasan al-Hudaybi, remained moderate and interested in political negotiation and activism. Fringe or splinter movements inspired by the final writings of Qutb in the mid-1960s (particularly the manifesto Milestones, a.k.a. Ma'alim fi-l-Tariq) did, however, develop and they pursued a more radical direction.[241] By the 1970s, the Brotherhood had renounced violence as a means of achieving its goals.

The path of violence and military struggle was then taken up by the Egyptian Islamic Jihad organization responsible for the assassination of Anwar Sadat in 1981. Unlike earlier anti-colonial movements the extremist group directed its attacks against what it believed were "apostate" leaders of Muslim states, leaders who held secular leanings or who had introduced or promoted Western/foreign ideas and practices into Islamic societies. Its views were outlined in a pamphlet written by Muhammad Abd al-Salaam Farag, in which he states:

...there is no doubt that the first battlefield for jihad is the extermination of these infidel leaders and to replace them by a complete Islamic Order...

Another of the Egyptian groups which employed violence in their struggle for Islamic order was al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya (Islamic Group). Victims of their campaign against the Egyptian state in the 1990s included the head of the counter-terrorism police (Major General Raouf Khayrat), a parliamentary speaker (Rifaat al-Mahgoub), dozens of European tourists and Egyptian bystanders, and over 100 Egyptian police.[242] Ultimately the campaign to overthrow the government was unsuccessful, and the major jihadi group, Jamaa Islamiya (or al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya), renounced violence in 2003.[243] Other lesser known groups include the Islamic Liberation Party, Salvation from Hell and Takfir wal-Hijra, and these groups have variously been involved in activities such as attempted assassinations of political figures, arson of video shops and attempted takeovers of government buildings.[244]

France

The Democratic Union of Muslims (French: Union des démocrates musulmans français [fr], UDMF), a party founded in 2012, planned to take part in 2019 municipal elections. They presented candidate lists for 50 different cities.[245] The UDMF also fielded candidates for European Parliament elections. The rise of the party can be attributed to French Muslim dissatisfaction with mainstream political parties.[246]

Gérald Darmanin, Minister of the Interior of France, said in his book, Le séparatisme Islamiste, ‘Islamism, the most powerful ideology in the world, has deprived Islam of its voice.’[247]

Law against Islamist extremism

See also: Murder of Samuel Paty

After the murder of Paty, a bill was put forward to fight Islamist extremism and separatism to fight the roots of jihadist violence. It was approved by the National Assembly in February 2021.[248]

A new bill was introduced, which makes it unlawful to threaten a public servant in order to gain an exception or special treatment which carries a penalty of up to five years in prison. The legislation expands the powers of authorities to close places of worship and religious organisations when they promote "hate or violence". The law requires religious funds from abroad exceeding €10,000 to be declared and the relevant accounts to be certified, so as to regulate the donations from countries such as Turkey, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. Millions of euros in funding had previously reached France from countries such as Turkey, Morocco and Saudi Arabia.[248][249]

It provides stricter rules for allowing home-schooling in order to prevent parents taking children out of school in order to let them pursue their education in underground Islamist institutions. Doctors performing virginity tests would be subject to fines or prison sentences. These changes were prompted by a number of cases of Muslim men trying to have their marriages annulled by accusing their spouse of having had sex before marriage.[249] Authorities will have to refuse residency documents to applicants who practise polygamy.[248][249] Forced marriages, thought[by whom?] to affect around 200,000 women in France, were likewise to be combated with greater scrutiny from registrars.[249]


Muslim Brotherhood in France

The brotherhood's build-up in France started with Union des organisations islamiques en France (UOIF) which later changed its name to Musulmans de France. The organization primarily consisted of foreign students who entered France from Tunisia and Morocco. By 2020, there were 147 mosques and 18 Islamic schools associated with the brotherhood. UOIF has about 50 000 members distributed among 200 member organizations.[250]

The Brotherhood pursues a communitarianist philiosophy and works against Muslims adopting liberal lifestyles and becoming assimilated into French society. In the long term, they aim towards entering politics by increasing the number of Muslims until they can form a political party of their own.[250]


Gaza (Hamas)

 
The Hamas flag

Hamas is a Palestinian Sunni Islamist organization that governs the Gaza Strip where it has moved to establish sharia law in matters such as separation of the genders, using the lash for punishment, and Islamic dress code.[251] Hamas also has a military resistance wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades.[252]

For some decades prior to the First Palestine Intifada in 1987,[253] the Muslim Brotherhood in Palestine took a "quiescent" stance towards Israel,[254] focusing on preaching, education and social services, and benefiting from Israel's "indulgence" to build up a network of mosques and charitable organizations.[255] As the First Intifada gathered momentum and Palestinian shopkeepers closed their shops in support of the uprising, the Brotherhood announced the formation of HAMAS ("zeal"), devoted to Jihad against Israel. Rather than being more moderate than the PLO, the 1988 Hamas charter took a more uncompromising stand, calling for the destruction of Israel and the establishment of an Islamic state in Palestine.[256] It was soon competing with and then overtaking the PLO for control of the intifada. The Brotherhood's base of devout middle class found common cause with the impoverished youth of the intifada in their cultural conservatism and antipathy for activities of the secular middle class such as drinking alcohol and going about without hijab.[257]

Hamas has continued to play a significant role in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. From 2000 to 2007 it killed 542 people in 140 suicide bombing or "martyrdom operations".[256] In the January 2006 legislative election—its first foray into the political process—it won the majority of the seats,[256] and in 2007 it drove the PLO out of Gaza. Hamas has been praised by Muslims for driving Israel out of the Gaza Strip,[256] but criticized for failure to achieve its demands in the 2008–09 and 2014 Gaza Wars despite heavy destruction and significant loss of life.[258]

Iraq and Syria (Islamic State)

See also: Islamic State

Pakistan

See also: Zia-ul-Haq's Islamization and Objectives Resolution

Early in the history of the state of Pakistan (12 March 1949), a parliamentary resolution (the Objectives Resolution) was adopted in accordance with the vision of founding fathers of Pakistan (Muhammad Iqbal, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Liaquat Ali Khan),[citation needed] proclaiming:

Sovereignty belongs to Allah alone but He has delegated it to the State of Pakistan through its people for being exercised within the limits prescribed by Him as a sacred trust.

  • The State shall exercise its powers and authority through the elected representatives of the people.
  • The principles of democracy, freedom, equality, tolerance and social justice, as enunciated by Islam, shall be fully observed.
  • Muslims shall be enabled to order their lives in the individual and collective spheres in accordance with the teachings of Islam as set out in the Quran and Sunnah.
  • Provision shall be made for the religious minorities to freely profess and practice their religions and develop their cultures.

This resolution later became a key source of inspiration for writers of the Constitution of Pakistan, and is included in the constitution as preamble.

In July 1977, General Zia-ul-Haq overthrew Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto's regime in Pakistan. Ali Bhutto, a leftist in democratic competition with Islamists, had announced banning alcohol and nightclubs within six months, shortly before he was overthrown.[259] Zia-ul-Haq was much more committed to Islamism, and "Islamization" or implementation of Islamic law, became a cornerstone of his eleven-year military dictatorship and Islamism became his "official state ideology". Zia ul Haq was an admirer of Mawdudi and Mawdudi's party Jamaat-e-Islami became the "regime's ideological and political arm".[260] In Pakistan this Islamization from above was "probably" more complete "than under any other regime except those in Iran and Sudan," but Zia-ul-Haq was also criticized by many Islamists for imposing "symbols" rather than substance, and using Islamization to legitimize his means of seizing power.[261] Unlike neighboring Iran, Zia-ul-Haq's policies were intended to "avoid revolutionary excess", and not to strain relations with his American and Persian Gulf state allies.[262] Zia-ul-Haq was killed in 1988 but Islamization remains an important element in Pakistani society.

Sudan

Main article: Islamism in Sudan
See also: National Islamic Front and National Congress (Sudan)

For many years, Sudan had an Islamist regime under the leadership of Hassan al-Turabi. His National Islamic Front first gained influence when strongman General Gaafar al-Nimeiry invited members to serve in his government in 1979. Turabi built a powerful economic base with money from foreign Islamist banking systems, especially those linked with Saudi Arabia. He also recruited and built a cadre of influential loyalists by placing sympathetic students in the university and military academy while serving as minister of education.[65]

After al-Nimeiry was overthrown in 1985 the party did poorly in national elections, but in 1989 it was able to overthrow the elected post-al-Nimeiry government with the help of the military. Turabi was noted for proclaiming his support for the democratic process and a liberal government before coming to power, but strict application of sharia law, torture and mass imprisonment of the opposition,[64] and an intensification of the long-running war in southern Sudan,[263] once in power. The NIF regime also harbored Osama bin Laden for a time (before 9/11), and worked to unify Islamist opposition to the American attack on Iraq in the 1991 Gulf War.

After Sudanese intelligence services were implicated in an assassination attempt on the President of Egypt, UN economic sanctions were imposed on Sudan, a poor country, and Turabi fell from favor.[264] He was imprisoned for a time in 2004–05. Some of the NIF policies, such as the war with the non-Muslim south, have been reversed, though the National Islamic Front still holds considerable power in the government of Omar al-Bashir and National Congress Party, another Islamist party in country.

Switzerland

Switzerland is not normally seen as a center of Islamism, especially when compared to countries such as Belgium or France. However, from 2012 to 2018, the majority of the country's jihadist and would-be jihadist population were radicalized in Switzerland.[265]

Turkey

 
Necmettin Erbakan, elected in 1996, was the second Islamist Prime Minister of Turkey after Şemsettin Günaltay, but was removed from power by a "postmodern coup d'état" in 1997.

Turkey had a number of Islamist parties, often changing names as they were banned by the constitutional court for anti-secular activities. Necmettin Erbakan (1926–2011) was the leader of several of the parties, the National Order Party (Milli Nizam Partisi, 1970–1971), the National Salvation Party (Milli Selamet Partisi, 1972–1981), and the Welfare Party (Refah Partisi, 1983–1998); he also became a member of the Felicity Party (Saadet Partisi, 2003–2011). Current Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has long been considered a champion of political Islam.[266] The Justice and Development Party (AKP), which has dominated Turkish politics since 2002, is sometimes described as Islamist, but rejects such classification.[267]

Contemporary era

By country

Hizb ut-Tahrir

Main article: Hizb ut-Tahrir

Hizb ut-Tahrir is an influential international Islamist movement, founded in 1953 by an Islamic Qadi (judge) Taqiuddin al-Nabhani. HT is unique from most other Islamist movements in that the party focuses not on implementation of Sharia on local level or on providing social services, but on unifying the Muslim world under its vision of a new Islamic caliphate spanning from North Africa and the Middle East to much of central and South Asia.

To this end it has drawn up and published a 186-article constitution for its proposed caliphate-state specifying specific policies such as sharia law, a "unitary ruling system" headed by a caliph elected by Muslims, an economy based on the gold standard, public ownership of utilities, public transport, and energy resources, death for apostates and Arabic as the "sole language of the State."[297][298]

In its focus on the Caliphate, the party takes a different view of Muslim history than some other Islamists such as Muhammad Qutb. HT sees Islam's pivotal turning point as occurring not with the death of Ali, or one of the other four "rightly guided" caliphs in the 7th century, but with the abolition of the Ottoman Caliphate in 1924. This is believed to have ended the true Islamic system, something for which it blames "the disbelieving (Kafir) colonial powers" working through Turkish modernist Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.[299]

HT does not engage in armed jihad or work for a democratic system, but works to take power through "ideological struggle" to change Muslim public opinion, and in particular through elites who will "facilitate" a "change of the government," i.e., launch a "bloodless" coup. It allegedly attempted and failed such coups in 1968 and 1969 in Jordan, and in 1974 in Egypt, and is now banned in both countries.[300]

The party is sometimes described as "Leninist" and "rigidly controlled by its central leadership,"[301] with its estimated one million members required to spend "at least two years studying party literature under the guidance of mentors (Murshid)" before taking "the party oath."[301] HT is particularly active in the ex-soviet republics of Central Asia and in Europe.

Post-Arab Spring (2011–present)

One observer (Quinn Mecham) notes four trends in Islamism rising from the Arab Spring of 2010–11:

  • The repression of the Muslim Brotherhood. Primarily by the Egyptian military and courts following the forcible removal of Morsi from office in 2013; but also by Saudi Arabia and a number of Gulf countries (not Qatar).[302][303]
  • Rise of Islamist "state-building" where "state failure" has taken place—most prominently in Syria, Iraq, Libya and Yemen. Islamists have found it easier than competing non-Islamists trying to fill the void of state failure, by securing external funding, weaponry and fighters—"many of which have come from abroad and have rallied around a pan-Islamic identity". The norms of governance in these Islamist areas are militia-based, and the population submit to their authority out of fear, loyalty, other reasons, or some combination.[302] The "most expansive" of these new "models" is the Islamic State.[302]
  • Increasing sectarianism at least in part from proxy wars. Fighters are proxies primarily for Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states and for Iran. Islamists are fighting Islamists across sectarian lines in Lebanon (Sunni militants targeting Hezbollah positions), Yemen (between mainstream Sunni Islamists of Islah and the Shiite Zaydi Houthi movement), in Iraq (Islamic State and Iraqi Shiite militias)[302]
  • Increased caution and political learning in countries such as Algeria and Jordan where Islamist have chosen not to lead a major challenge against their governments. In Yemen Islah "has sought to frame its ideology in a way that will avoid charges of militancy".[302]

Another observer (Tarek Osman) notes with concern that

  • the failure to take power during the Arab Spring has led not to "soul-searching" in major Islamist groups about what went wrong, but instead to "antagonism and fiery anger" and a thirst for revenge. Partisans of political Islam (although this does not include some prominent leaders such as Rached Ghannouchi but is particularly true in Egypt) see themselves as victims of an injustice whose perpetrators are not just "individual conspirators but entire social groups".[304]

Islamic State

Main article: Islamic State
 
ISIL's territory, in grey, at the time of its greatest territorial extent in May 2015

"The Islamic State", formerly known as the "Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant" and before that the "Islamic State of Iraq", (also called by the Arabic acronym Daesh), is a Wahhabi/Salafi jihadist extremist militant group which is led by and mainly composed of Sunni Arabs from Syria and Iraq.[305] In 2014, the group proclaimed itself a caliphate, with religious, political and military authority over all Muslims worldwide.[306] As of March 2015, it had control over territory occupied by ten million people[307] in Syria and Iraq, and has nominal control over small areas of Libya, Nigeria, and Afghanistan.[308][309] (While a self-described state, it lacks international recognition.[310]) ISIL also operates or has affiliates in other parts of the world, including North Africa and South Asia[311][312]

Originating as the Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad in 1999, ISIL pledged allegiance to al-Qaeda in 2004, participated in the Iraqi insurgency that followed the invasion of Iraq by Western coalition forces in 2003, joined the fight in the Syrian Civil War beginning in 2011, and was expelled from al-Qaeda in early 2014, (which complained of its failure to consult and "notorious intransigence"[313][314]). ISIL gained prominence after it drove Iraqi government forces out of key cities in western Iraq in an offensive in June that same year.[315] The group is adept at social media, posting Internet videos of beheadings of soldiers, civilians, journalists and aid workers, and is known for its destruction of cultural heritage sites.[316] The United Nations (UN) has held ISIL responsible for human rights abuses and war crimes, and Amnesty International has reported ethnic cleansing by the group on a "historic scale". The group has been designated a terrorist organisation by the UN, the European Union (EU) and member states, the United States, India, Indonesia, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Syria and other countries.

Islamism in the Shia World

See also: Islamist Shi'ism

Shīʿa Islam is the second largest branch of Islam, followed by 10–15% of all Muslims.[317] Twelver Shīʿīsm is the largest branch of Shīʿa Islam,[318] comprising about 85% of all Shīʿa Muslims.[319]

Islamist Shi'ism (Persian: تشیع اخوانی) is a minority denomination of Twelver Shi'ism which was influenced by the Sunni Muslim Brotherhood ideologies and it is also a politicized version of Ibn Arabi's mysticism.[320][321] It sees Islam as a political system and it also differs from the other mainstream Usuli and Akhbari groups because it advocates the formation of an Islamist state before the end of the occultation of the twelfth Imam.[322][323] Islamist Shi'ism took its shape during the Cold War and appeared on international stage after Iranian Revolution of 1979. It has been crucial in worldwide Islamism, since the Iranian regime decided to export its revolution.[324] Although, the Islamist ideology was originally imported from Muslim Brotherhood, Iranian relations with Muslim Brotherhood has also deteriorated due to its involvement in the Syrian civil war.[325] However, the majority Usuli Shi'ism rejects the idea of an Islamist State in the period of Occultation of the Hidden Imam.[326]

The Inherent Secularity

See also: Muhammad Kazim Khurasani
 
Muhammad Kazim Khurasani (Persian: محمد کاظم خراسانی; 1839 – 12 December 1911), commonly known as Akhund Khurasani (Persian: آخوند خراسانی)[327][328] is one of the greatest theorists of Usuli Shi'ism in modern times.

Occultation of Imam in Shia Islam refers to a belief that Mahdi, a cultivated male descendant of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad, has already been born and subsequently went into occultation, from which he will one day emerge with Jesus and establish global justice. During the first democratic revolution of Asia, the Iranian Constitutional Revolution, Shia Marja' Akhund Khurasani and his colleagues theorized a model of religious secularity in the absence of Imam, that still prevails in Shia seminaries.[326] In absence of the ideal ruler, that is Imam al-Mahdi, democracy was the best available option.[329] He considers opposition to constitutional democracy hostility towards the twelfth Imam because an Islamic system of governance can not be established without the leadership of the infallible Imam.[330] Thus a democratic legislation can help reduce the state's tyranny and maintain peace and security. He said:[331]

Because it is “sanctioned by sacred law and religion”, Akhund believes, a theocratic government can only be formed by the infallible Imam.[332] Aqa Buzurg Tehrani also quoted Akhund Khurasani saying that if there was a possibility of establishment of a truly legitimate Islamic rule in any age, God must end occultation of the Imam of Age. Hence, he refuted the idea of absolute guardianship of jurist.[333] Therefore, according to Akhund, Shia jurists must support the democratic reform. He prefers collective wisdom (Persian: عقل جمعی) over individual opinions, and limits the role of jurist to provide religious guidance in personal affairs of a believer.[334] He defines democracy as a system of governance that enforces a set of “limitations and conditions” on the head of state and government employees so that they work within “boundaries that the laws and religion of every nation determines”. Akhund believes that modern secular laws complement traditional religion. He asserts that both religious rulings and the laws outside the scope of religion confront “state despotism”.[335] Constitutionalism is based on the idea of defending the “nation's inherent and natural liberties”, and as absolute power corrupts, a democratic distribution of power would make it possible for the nation to live up to its full potential.[335]

The First Democratic Revolution of Asia

See also: Persian Constitutional Revolution

The city of Najaf has played the role of nerve center in Shia world through centuries. In the 1900s, at the dawn of constitutional revolution, it was here that the political ideas were discussed and the religious secularity of Shia jurisprudence took shape. Many periodicals of the time, especially ‘al-Ghura’, ‘Durat al-Najaf’ and ‘Najaf’, published from the city, reflect the nature of the intellectual exchange during the movement.[336]} Other publications, such as Calcutta based ‘Habl al-Matin’ also reached the residents of Najaf.[336]} Najaf had developed its own taste of modernity, distinct from west. These publications advocated the concepts of personal liberty, nation-state, modern sciences, constitutional monarchy and democracy. But they also viewed western colonial advance as intimidating and understood that the only way to fight back was creating a strong and progressive nation.[336]}

 
The trio: (left to right) Akhund Khurasani, Mirza Husayn Tehrani and Abdullah Mazandarani

The fourth Qajar King, Naser al-Din Shah was assassinated by Mirza Reza Kermani, a follower of Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī, when he was visiting and praying in the Shah Abdul-Azim Shrine on 1 May 1896. At Mozaffar al-Din Shah's accession Persia faced a financial crisis, with annual governmental expenditures far in excess of revenues as a result of the policies of his father. During his reign, Mozzafar ad-Din attempted some reforms of the central treasury; however, the previous debt incurred by the Qajar court, owed to both England and Russia, significantly undermined this effort. He awarded William Knox D'Arcy, a British subject, the rights to oil in most of the country in 1901.[337] Widespread fears amongst the aristocracy, educated elites, and religious leaders about the concessions and foreign control resulted in some protests in 1906. The three main groups of the coalition seeking a constitution were the merchants, the ulama, and a small group of radical reformers. They shared the goal of ending royal corruption and ending dominance by foreign powers. These resulted in the Shah accepting a suggestion to create a Majles (National Consultative Assembly) in October 1906, by which the monarch's power was curtailed as he granted a constitution and parliament to the people. King Mozaffar ad-Din Shah signed the 1906 constitution shortly before his death. The members of newly formed parliament stayed constantly in touch with Akhund Khurasani and whenever legislative bills were discussed, he was telegraphed the details for a juristic opinion.[338] In a letter dated June 3, 1907, the parliament told Akhund about a group of anti-constitutionalists who were trying to undermine legitimacy of democracy in the name of religious law. The trio replied:[338][339]

The Cold War and the Usuli-Islamist Clash in the Shi'i World

See also: Arab Cold War
 
Sayyid Muhsin al-Hakim (Arabic: سيد محسن الطباطبائي الحكيم; 31 May 1889 – 2 June 1970) was a student of Akhund Khurasani.
 
Sayyid Qutb (Arabic: سيد إبراهيم حسين قطب; 1906 – 1966) was an Egyptian Sunni Islamist author and a leading member of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood in the 1950s and 1960s.
 
Ayatullah Sayyid Mohammad Hadi al-Milani (Persian: سيد محمد هادى حسينى ميلانی; July 1, 1895 – August 7, 1975) was a student of Ayatullah Na'ini.
 
Ali Shariati (Persian: علی شریعتی مزینانی; 1933 – 1977).

During the cold war, a massive translation of Muslim Brotherhood thinkers started in Iran. The books of Sayyid Qutb and Abul A'la Al-Maududi were promoted through Muslim World League by Saudi patronage to confront communist propaganda in the Muslim world.[340] The Shah regime in Iran tolerated the Muslim Brotherhood literature because not only it weakened the democratic Usulis but also, being in western camp, Shah understood that this was the main ideological response of West to penetrating Soviet communism in Muslim world.[341] Soviet reports of the time indicate that Persian translations of this literature were smuggled to Afghanistan too, where western block intended to use Islamists against the communists.[342] Khaled Abou el-Fadl thinks that Sayyid Qutb was inspired by the German fascist Carl Schmidt.[343] He embodied a mixture of Wahhabism and Fascism and alongside Maududi, theorized the ideology of Islamism. The writings of Maududi and other Pakistani and Indian Islamists were translated into Persian and alongside the literature of Muslim Brotherhood, shaped the ideology of Shi'i Islamists.[344] [345] Maududi appreciated the power of modern state and its coercive potential that could be used for moral policing. He saw Islam as a nation-state that sought to mould its citizens and control every private and public expression of their lives, like fascists and communist states.[346] Iranian Shi'i Islamists had close links with Maududi's Jamaat-e-Islami, and after the 1963 riots in Qom, the Jamaat's periodical Tarjuman ul-Quran published a piece criticizing the Shah and supporting the Islamist currents in Iran.[347] Sayyid Qutb's works were translated by Iranian Islamists into Persian and enjoyed remarkable popularity both before and after the revolution. Prominent figures such as current Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and his brother Muhammad Khamenei, Aḥmad Aram, Hadi Khosroshahi, etc. translated Qutb's works into Persian.[348][349] Hadi Khosroshahi was the first person to identify himself as Akhwani Shia.[350] According to the National Library and Archives of Iran, 19 works of Sayyid Qutb and 17 works of his brother Muhammad Qutb were translated to Persian and widely circulated in 1960's.[351] Reflecting on this import of ideas, Ali Khamenei said:

The newly emerged Islamic movement . . . had a pressing need for codified ideological foundations . . . Most writings on Islam at the time lacked any direct discussions of the ongoing struggles of the Muslim people . . . Few individuals who fought in the fiercest skirmishes of that battlefield made up their minds to compensate for this deficiency . . . This text was translated with this goal in mind. [352]

In 1984, the Iranian authorities honoured Sayyid Qutb by issuing a postage stamp which showed him behind bars during his trial.[353]

But Ayatullah Hadi Milani, the influential Usuli Marja in Mashhad during the 1970s, had issued a fatwa prohibiting his followers from reading Ali Shariati's books and Islamist literature produced by young clerics. This fatwa was followed by similar fatwas from Ayatullah Mar'ashi Najafi, Ayatullah Muhammad Rouhani, Ayatullah Hasan Qomi and others. The Islamist Ayatullah Khomeini refused to comment.[354] Ali Shariati, a bitter critic of traditional Usuli clergy, was also greatly influenced by anti-democratic Islamist ideas of Muslim Brotherhood thinkers in Egypt and he tried to meet Muhammad Qutb while visiting Saudi Arabia in 1969.[355] Shariati criticized Ayatullah Hadi al-Milani and other Usuli Marja's for not being revolutionary.[356] A chain smoker, Shariati died of a heart attack while in self-imposed exile in Southampton, on June 18, 1977.[357]

However, in one of his first books, Kashf al-Asrar, the Islamist jurist, Ruhollah Khomeini had argued that:

Government can only be legitimate when it accepts the rule of God and the rule of God means the implementation of the Sharia. All laws that are contrary to the Sharia must be dropped because only the law of God will stay valid and immutable in the face of changing times. [358]

Meanwhile, in Iraq, the Sunni dynasty of Hashemites founded by the British colonialism in 1921 fell after a successful military coup in 1958, led by the pro-soviet General Abd al-Karim Qasim. The religious learning centers came under immense pressure from the communist propaganda and government's attempts to curb religion as an obstacle to modernity and progress. Usuli Marja' Ayatollah Mohsin al-Hakim issued fatwa against communism.[359] A young Islamist cleric, Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr started to produce Islamist literature and wrote books like Our Philosophy and Our Economy, and with some colleagues established the Islamic Dawa Party, with similar goals to that of Muslim Brotherhood, but left it after two years to focus on writing. Ayatullah Mohsin al-Hakim disapproved of his activities and ideas.[360]

The Islamist Revolution

See also: Guardianship of the Islamic Jurist
 
Sayyid Abul Qasim al-Khoei (Persian: سید ابوالقاسم خویی), 1992-1899 was a student of Ayatullah Na'ini.
 
Ruhollah Khomeini(Persian: سید روح الله خمینی), anti-secularist leader of Islamic Revolution of Iran was a student of a mystic Sheikh, Muhammad Ali Shah-Abadi.

After his arrest in Iran following the 1963 riots, leading Ayatullahs had issued a statement that Ayatullah Khomeini was a legitimate Marja' too, which saved his life and he was exiled.[361] While in exile in Iraq in the holy city of Najaf, Khomeini took advantage of the Iraq-Iran conflict and launched a campaign against the Pahlavi regime in Iran. Saddam Hussein gave him access to the Persian broadcast of Radio Baghdad to address Iranians and made it easier for him to receive visitors.[362] He gave a series of 19 lectures to a group of his students from January 21 to February 8, 1970, on Islamic Government, and elevated Naraqi's idea of Jurist's absolute authority over imitator's personal life to all aspects of social life. Notes of the lectures were soon made into a book that appeared under three different titles: The Islamic Government, Authority of the Jurist, and A Letter from Imam Musavi Kashef al-Gita[363] (to deceive Iranian censors). Khomeini The small book (fewer than 150 pages) was smuggled into Iran and "widely distributed" to Khomeini supporters before the revolution.[364] The response from high-level Shi'a clerics to his idea of absolute guardianship of jurist was negative. Grand Ayatollah Abul-Qassim Khoei, the leading Shia ayatollah at the time the book was published rejected Khomeini's argument on the grounds that the authority of jurist is limited to the guardianship of orphans and social welfare and could not be extended to the political sphere.[365] Al-Khoei elaborates on the role of a well-qualified Shia Jurist in the age of occultation of the Infallible Imam, which has been traditionally endorsed by the Usuli Shia scholars, as follows:

 
Syed Abulhassan Shamsabadi was killed by Islamists in 1976.
 
Murtaza Mutahhari (Persian: مرتضی مطهری; 31 January 1919 – 1 May 1979) was a moderate Islamist. He believed that a jurist only had a supervisory role and was not supposed to govern.[366]

Ayatullah Khoei showed great flexibility and tolerance, for example he considered non-Muslims as equal citizens of the nation-state, stopped the harsh punishments like stoning and favored the use of holy books other than Quran for oaths taken from non-Muslims.[367] In Isfahan, Ayatullah Khoei's representative Syed Abul Hasan Shamsabadi gave sermons criticizing the Islamist interpretation of Shi'i theology, he was abducted and killed by the Islamist underground group called Target Killers (Persian: هدفی ها) headed by Mehdi Hashmi.[368]: 162–166 [369] At Qom, the major Marja' Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari was at odds with Khomeini's interpretation of the concept of the "Leadership of Jurists" (Wilayat al-faqih). Shariatmadari strongly believed that no system of government can be coerced upon a people, no matter how morally correct it may be. Instead, people need to be able to freely elect a government.[370] Before the Islamist revolution of 1979, Shariatmadari wanted a return to the system of constitutional monarchy that was enacted in the Iranian Constitution of 1906.[371] He encouraged peaceful demonstrations to avoid bloodshed.[372]

 
Sayyid Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari (Persian: سید محمد کاظم شریعتمداری), 5 January 1906 – 3 April 1986, died under house arrest.
 
Ruhollah Khomeini in Tehran with Ahmad Khomeini and Mohammad-Ali Rajai.

On 6 January 1978, an article appeared in the daily Ettela'at newspaper, insulting Ayatullah Khomeini. Frustrated youth in Qom took to the streets, six were killed. On 40th day of deaths in Qom, Tabriz saw uprising and death. The chain-reaction started and led to uprisings in all cities. Seizing the moment, Khomeini gave an interview to the French newspaper Le Monde and demanded that the regime should be overthrown. He started giving interviews to western media in which he appeared as a changed man, spoke of a ‘progressive islam’ and did not mention the idea of ‘guardianship of the jurist’. On 10th and 11 December 1978, the days of Tasu'a and Ashura, millions marched on the streets of Tehran, chanting ‘Death to Shah’. On 16 January 1979, Shah fled the country.[373] After the success of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the major Iranian Usuli Marja' Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari criticized Khomeini's system of government as not being compatible with Islam or representing the will of the Iranian people. He severely criticized the way in which a referendum was conducted to establish Khomeini's system of government. In response, Khomeini put him under house arrest and imprison his family members. This resulted in mass protests in Tabriz which were quashed toward the end of January 1980, when under the orders of Khomeini tanks and the army moved into the city.[374]

Response

Criticism

Main article: Criticism of Islamism

Islamism, or elements of Islamism, have been criticized on numerous grounds, including repression of free expression and individual rights, rigidity, hypocrisy, anti-semitism,[375] misinterpreting the Quran and Sunnah, lack of true understanding of and innovations to Islam (bid'ah) -- notwithstanding proclaimed opposition to any such innovation by Islamists.

Counter-response

The U.S. government has engaged in efforts to counter militant Islamism (Jihadism), since 2001. These efforts were centred in the U.S. around public diplomacy programmes conducted by the State Department. There have been calls to create an independent agency in the U.S. with a specific mission of undermining Jihadism. Christian Whiton, an official in the George W. Bush administration, called for a new agency focused on the nonviolent practice of "political warfare" aimed at undermining the ideology.[376] U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates called for establishing something similar to the defunct U.S. Information Agency, which was charged with undermining the communist ideology during the Cold War.[377]

Parties and organizations

Main category: Islamist groups
For a more comprehensive list, see List of Islamic political parties and Islamic extremism § Active Islamic extremist groups.

See also

References

Notes

  1. ^ As such, Salafi Jihadism envisions the Islamist goals akin to that of Salafism instead of the traditional Islamism exemplified by the mid-20th century Muslim Brotherhood, which is considered by Salafi Jihadis as excessively moderate and lacking in literal interpretations of the scriptures.[95]

Citations

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This article is about an Islamic political ideology and political movement For the religion itself see Islam Sunni Islamism redirects here For the religious beliefs referred to by similar terms see Sunni Islam This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia s quality standards The specific problem is This page has an overly complicated structure and either needs simplifying or splitting There are also large sections written out as lists when prose would be preferable Please help improve this article if you can April 2022 Learn how and when to remove this template message Islamism also often called political Islam or Islamic fundamentalism 1 is a religio political ideology There is no consensus definition of Islamism 2 which has many varieties and alternative names 2 The use of the term is objected to by some as derogatory 3 and by others as so broad and flexible as to have lost its meaning 4 In its original formulation Islamism described an ideology seeking to revive Islam to its past assertiveness and glory 5 purifying it of foreign elements reasserting its role into social and political as well as personal life 6 and in particular reordering government and society in accordance with laws prescribed by Islam aka Sharia 7 8 9 10 According to at least one observer author Robin Wright Islamist movements have arguably altered the Middle East more than any trend since the modern states gained independence redefining politics and even borders 11 Central and prominent figures in 20th century Islamism include Sayyid Rashid Rida 12 Hassan al Banna founder of the Muslim Brotherhood Sayyid Qutb Abul A la Maududi 13 Ruhollah Khomeini founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran Hassan Al Turabi 14 Al Banna and Maududi called for a reformist strategy to re Islamizing society through grassroots social and political activism 15 16 Other Islamists Al Turabi have advocated a revolutionary strategy of Islamizing society through exercise of state power 15 or for combining grassroots Islamization with violent revolution Sayyid Qutb The term has been applied to non state reform movements political parties militias and revolutionary groups 17 Islamists emphasize the implementation of sharia 18 pan Islamic political unity 18 the creation of Islamic states 19 eventually unified and rejection of non Muslim influences particularly Western or universal economic military political social or cultural At least one author Graham E Fuller has argued for a broader notion of Islamism as a form of identity politics involving support for Muslim identity authenticity broader regionalism revivalism and revitalization of the community 20 Islamists themselves prefer terms such as Islamic movement 21 or Islamic activism to Islamism objecting to the insinuation that Islamism is anything other than Islam renewed and revived 22 In public and academic contexts 23 the term Islamism has been criticized as having been given connotations of violence extremism and violations of human rights by the Western mass media leading to Islamophobia and stereotyping 1 Following the Arab Spring many post Islamist currents became heavily involved in democratic politics 11 24 while others spawned the most aggressive and ambitious Islamist militia to date such as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ISIL 11 Contents 1 Terminology 1 1 Definitions 2 Overview 2 1 Relationship between Islam and Islamism 2 2 Influence 3 Types 3 1 Moderate and reformist Islamism 3 2 Salafi movement 3 2 1 Wahhabism 3 3 Militant Islamism Jihadism 3 3 1 Qutbism 3 3 2 Salafi Jihadism 4 Explanations for the growth and popularity of Islamism 4 1 Sociological and political explanations 4 1 1 Charitable work 4 1 2 Dissatisfaction with the status quo 4 1 3 Silencing of leftist opposition 4 2 Ideology 4 2 1 Strength of identity politics 4 2 2 Islamic revival 4 2 3 Alienation from the West 4 3 Geopolitics 4 3 1 State sponsorship 4 3 1 1 Saudi Arabia 4 3 1 2 Qatar 4 3 2 Western support of Islamism during the Cold War 5 History 5 1 Predecessor movements 5 2 Early history 5 2 1 Sayyid Rashid Rida 5 2 2 Muhammad Iqbal 5 2 3 Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi 5 2 4 Muslim Brotherhood 5 2 5 Sayyid Qutb 1906 1966 6 Ascendancy in international politics 6 1 Six Day War 1967 6 2 Iranian Revolution 1978 1979 6 3 Grand Mosque seizure 1979 6 4 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan 1979 1989 6 5 Persian Gulf War 1990 1991 6 6 2000s 6 7 Post Islamism 7 Rise of Islamism by country 7 1 Afghanistan Taliban 7 2 Algeria 7 3 Bangladesh 7 4 Belgium 7 5 Denmark 7 6 Egypt Jihadism 7 7 France 7 7 1 Law against Islamist extremism 7 7 2 Muslim Brotherhood in France 7 8 Gaza Hamas 7 9 Iraq and Syria Islamic State 7 10 Pakistan 7 11 Sudan 7 12 Switzerland 7 13 Turkey 7 14 Contemporary era 7 14 1 By country 7 14 2 Hizb ut Tahrir 7 14 3 Post Arab Spring 2011 present 7 14 4 Islamic State 8 Islamism in the Shia World 8 1 The Inherent Secularity 8 2 The First Democratic Revolution of Asia 8 3 The Cold War and the Usuli Islamist Clash in the Shi i World 8 4 The Islamist Revolution 9 Response 9 1 Criticism 9 2 Counter response 10 Parties and organizations 11 See also 12 References 12 1 Notes 12 2 Citations 12 3 Sources 13 Further reading 14 External linksTerminology EditOriginally the term Islamism was simply used to mean the religion of Islam not an ideology or movement It first appeared in the English language as Islamismus in 1696 and as Islamism in 1712 25 The term appears in the U S Supreme Court decision in In Re Ross 1891 By the turn of the twentieth century the shorter and purely Arabic term Islam had begun to displace it and by 1938 when Orientalist scholars completed The Encyclopaedia of Islam Islamism seems to have virtually disappeared from English usage citation needed The term remained practically absent from the vocabulary of scholars writers or journalists until the Iranian Islamic Revolution of 1978 79 which brought Ayatollah Khomeini s concept of Islamic government to Iran 26 Definitions Edit Islamism has been defined as the belief that Islam should guide social and political as well as personal life Sheri Berman 6 the belief that Islam should influence political systems Cambridge English Dictionary 27 the Islamic ideology that guides society as a whole and that teaches law must be in conformity with the Islamic sharia W E Shepard 8 a form of religionized politics and an instance of religious fundamentalism that imagines an Islamic community claiming global hegemony for its values Bassam Tibi 28 political movement that favors reordering government and society in accordance with laws prescribed by Islam Associated Press stylebook 7 3 a political ideology which seeks to enforce Islamic precepts and norms as generally applicable rules for people s conduct and whose adherents seek a state based on Islamic values and laws sharia and rejecting Western guiding principles such as freedom of opinion freedom of the press artistic freedom and freedom of religion Thomas Volk 29 a broad set of political ideologies that utilize and draw inspiration from Islamic symbols and traditions in pursuit of a sociopolitical objective also called political Islam Britannica 30 has become shorthand for Muslims we don t like Council on American Islamic Relations in complaint about AP s earlier definition of Islamist 3 In Western popular discourse generally uses Islamism when discussing the negative or that which is bad in Muslim communities The signifier Islam on the other hand is reserved for the positive or neutral David Belt 31 a movement so broad and flexible it reaches out to everything to everyone in Islam making it unsustainable Tarek Osman 4 an alternative social provider to the poor masses an angry platform for the disillusioned young a loud trumpet call announcing a return to the pure religion to those seeking an identity a progressive moderate religious platform for the affluent and liberal and at the extremes a violent vehicle for rejectionists and radicals 4 an Islamic movement that seeks cultural differentiation from the West and reconnection with the pre colonial symbolic universe Francois Burgat 5 the active assertion and promotion of beliefs prescriptions laws or policies that are held to be Islamic in character International Crisis Group 22 a movement of Muslims who draw upon the belief symbols and language of Islam to inspire shape and animate political activity which may contain moderate tolerant peaceful activists or those who preach intolerance and espouse violence Robert H Pelletreau 32 All who seek to Islamize their environment whether in relation to their lives in society their family circumstances or the workplace Roy Olivier 33 Overview EditRelationship between Islam and Islamism Edit Further information Political aspects of Islam The relationship between Islam and the notions of Islamism has been a source of disagreement with Islamists simply seeing their movement as a corrected version or a revival of Islam while others denounce or dismiss Islamism as a modern deviation from Islam At least one observer a writer for the International Crisis Group maintains that the conception of political Islam is a creation of Americans to explain the Iranian Islamic Revolution ignoring the fact that according to them Islam is by definition political In fact it is quietist non political Islam not Islamism that requires explanation which the author gives calling it an historical fluke of the short lived era of the heyday of secular Arab nationalism between 1945 and 1970 34 Hayri Abaza argues that the failure to distinguish Islam from Islamism leads many in the West to equate the two they think that by supporting illiberal Islamic Islamist regimes they are being respectful of Islam to the detriment of those who seek to separate religion from politics 35 Another source distinguishes Islamist from Islamic by emphasizing the fact that Islam refers to a religion and culture in existence over a millennium whereas Islamism is a political religious phenomenon linked to the great events of the 20th century Islamists have at least at times defined themselves as Islamiyyoun Islamists to differentiate themselves from Muslimun Muslims 36 Daniel Pipes describes Islamism as a modern ideology that owes more to European utopian political ideologies and isms than to the traditional Islamic religion 37 Influence Edit Few observers contest the immense influence of Islamism within the Muslim world 38 39 40 Following the collapse of the Soviet Union political movements based on the liberal ideology of free expression and democratic rule have led the opposition in other parts of the world such as Latin America Eastern Europe and many parts of Asia however the simple fact is that political Islam currently reigns circa 2002 3 as the most powerful ideological force across the Muslim world today 41 42 Some Western political scientists see the unchanging socio economic condition in the Muslim world as a major factor Olivier Roy believes the socioeconomic realities that sustained the Islamist wave are still here and are not going to change poverty uprootedness crises in values and identities the decay of the educational systems the North South opposition and the problem of immigrant integration into the host societies 43 The strength of Islamism also draws from the strength of religiosity in general in the Muslim world Compared to other societies around the globe w hat is striking about the Islamic world is that it seems to have been the least penetrated by irreligion 44 Where other peoples may look to the physical or social sciences for answers in areas which their ancestors regarded as best left to scripture in the Muslim world religion has become more encompassing not less as in the last few decades it has been the fundamentalists who have increasingly represented the cutting edge of Muslim culture 44 Writing in 2009 German journalist Sonja Zekri described Islamists in Egypt and other Muslim countries as extremely influential They determine how one dresses what one eats In these areas they are incredibly successful Even if the Islamists never come to power they have transformed their countries 45 Political Islamists were described as competing in the democratic public square in places like Turkey Tunisia Malaysia and Indonesia 46 Types EditIslamism takes different forms and spans a wide range of strategies and tactics towards the powers in place destruction opposition collaboration indifference 47 that have varied as circumstances have changed 48 2 p 54 and thus is not a united movement Moderate and reformist Islamists who accept and work within the democratic process include parties like the Tunisian Ennahda Movement Jamaat e Islami of Pakistan is basically a socio political and Vanguard party working with in Pakistan s Democratic political process but has also gained political influence through military coup d etats in the past 47 Other Islamist groups like Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Palestine participate in the democratic and political process as well as armed attacks by their powerful paramilitary wing Jihadist organizations like al Qaeda and the Egyptian Islamic Jihad and groups such as the Taliban entirely reject democracy seeing it as a form of kufr calling for offensive jihad on a religious basis Another major division within Islamism is between what Graham E Fuller has described as the conservative guardians of the tradition Salafis such as those in the Wahhabi movement and the revolutionary vanguard of change and Islamic reform centered around the Muslim Brotherhood 49 Olivier Roy argues that Sunni pan Islamism underwent a remarkable shift in the second half of the 20th century when the Muslim Brotherhood movement and its focus on Islamisation of pan Arabism was eclipsed by the Salafi movement with its emphasis on sharia rather than the building of Islamic institutions 50 Following the Arab Spring Roy has described Islamism as increasingly interdependent with democracy in much of the Arab Muslim world such that neither can now survive without the other While Islamist political culture itself may not be democratic Islamists need democratic elections to maintain their legitimacy At the same time their popularity is such that no government can call itself democratic that excludes mainstream Islamist groups 24 Circa 2017 arguing distinctions between radical moderate or violent peaceful Islamism were simplistic scholar Morten Valbjorn put forth these much more sophisticated typologies of Islamism 2 resistance revolutionary refor mist Islamism 51 Islahi Ikhwani Jihadi Ikhwani Islah salafi Jihadi salafi Islamism 52 refor mist revolutionary societal spiritual Islamism 53 Third Worldist Neo Third Worldist Islamism 54 Statist Non Statist Islamism 55 Salafist Jihadi Ikhwani Islamism 56 or mainstream irredentist jihadi doctrinaire jihadi Islamism 57 Moderate and reformist Islamism Edit See also Islamic democracy Throughout the 80s and 90s major moderate Islamist movements such as the Muslim Brotherhood and the Ennahda were excluded from democratic political participation At least in part for that reason Islamists attempted to overthrow the government in the Algerian Civil War 1991 2002 and terror campaign in Egypt in the 90s These attempts were crushed and in the 21st century Islamists turned increasingly to non violent methods 58 and moderate Islamists now make up the majority of the contemporary Islamist movements 16 49 59 Among some Islamists Democracy has been harmonized with Islam by means of Shura i e consultation The tradition of consultation by the ruler being considered Sunnah of the prophet Muhammad 59 60 61 Majlis ash Shura being a common name for legislative bodies in Islamic countries Among the varying goals strategies and outcomes of moderate Islamist movements are a formal abandonment of their original vision of implementing sharia also termed Post Islamism done by the Ennahda Movement of Tunisia 62 and Prosperous Justice Party PKS of Indonesia 63 Others such as the National Congress of Sudan have implemented the sharia with the foreign support from the conservative states Saudi Arabia 64 65 According to one concept inclusion moderation theory the interdependence of political outcome with goal and strategy means that the more moderate the Islamists become the more likely they are to be politically included or unsuppressed and the more accommodating the government is the less extreme Islamists become 66 A prototype of harmonizing Islamist principles within the modern state framework was the Turkish model based on the rule of the Turkish Justice and Development Party AKP led by Recep Tayyip Erdogan 67 Turkish model however has been considered came unstuck after recent purge and violations of democratic principles by the Erdogan regime 68 69 Critics of the concept who include other democracy rejecting Islamists hold that Islamist aspirations are fundamentally incompatible with the democratic principles Salafi movement Edit Main article Salafi movement The contemporary Salafi movement is sometimes described as a variety of Islamism and sometimes as a different school of Islam 70 such as a phase between fundamentalism and Islamism 71 Originally a reformist movement of Jamal al Din al Afghani Muhammad Abdul and Rashid Rida that rejected maraboutism the established schools of fiqh and demanded individual interpretation ijtihad of the Quran and Sunnah 72 it evolved into a movement embracing the conservative doctrines of the medieval Hanbali theologian Ibn Taymiyyah While it has a quietist school that advocates societal reform through religious education and proselytizing other salafi are activist or haraki or jihadist Salafi jihadism see below The activist school encourages non violent political participation within the constitutional and political framework The jihadist school is inspired by the ideology of Sayyid Qutb Qutbism see below and rejects the legitimacy of secular institutions and promotes the revolution in order to pave the way for the establishment of a new Caliphate 73 The politically active Salafi school Salafi activism believes that politics is a field which requires Salafi principles to be applied as well in the same manner with other aspects of society and life 73 Salafi activism originated in the 50s to 60s Saudi Arabia where many Muslim Brothers had taken refuge from the prosecution by the Nasser regime 74 There Muslim Brothers Islamism had synthesized with Salafism and led to the creation of the Salafi activist trend exemplified by the Sahwa movement in the 80s 73 promulgated by Safar Al Hawali and Salman al Ouda Today this school makes up the majority of Salafism 75 There are many active Salafist political parties throughout the Muslim world including the Al Islah Party of Yemen and Al Asalah of Bahrain Wahhabism Edit Main article Wahhabism One of the antecedents of the contemporary Salafi movement is Wahhabism which traces back to the 18th century reform movement in Arabia by Muhammad ibn Abd al Wahhab Although having different roots Wahhabism and Salafism are considered more or less merged by the 1960s in Saudi Arabia 76 77 In the process Salafis and Wahhabis have greatly influenced each other and today they share mostly similar religious outlooks 77 In effect Wahhabism has transformed into the Saudi brand of the Salafi movement 78 79 From the political perspective Wahhabism is marked in its teaching of bay ah which requires Muslims to present an allegiance to the ruler of the society 80 Wahhabis have traditionally given their allegiance to the House of Saud and this has made them apolitical in Saudi Arabia 81 However there are small numbers of other strains including Salafi Jihadist offshoot which decline to present an allegiance to the House of Saud 81 82 Due to their traditional monarchist stance of loyalty to the Saudi King Wahhabi clerics discourage revolutionary themes and activities related to social justice anticolonialism or economic equality expounded upon by most Islamists 83 Historically Wahhabism was state sponsored and internationally propagated by Saudi Arabia with the help of funding from mainly Saudi petroleum exports 84 leading to the explosive growth of its influence and subsequently the influence of Salafism from the 70s a phenomenon often dubbed as Petro Islam 85 Today both Wahhabism and Salafism exert their influence worldwide and they have been indirectly contributing to the upsurge of Salafi Jihadism as well 85 Militant Islamism Jihadism Edit Main article Jihadism See also Islamic terrorism and Islamic extremism Qutbism Edit Main article Qutbism Qutbism is a term used by Western political scientists to refer to the Jihadist ideology formulated by Sayyid Qutb an influential figure of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt during the 50s and 60s which justifies the use of violence in order to push the Islamist goals 86 Based on the two concepts Qutbism promotes engagement against the state apparatus in order to topple down its regime Fusion of Qutbism and Salafi Movement had resulted in the development of Salafi jihadism see below 87 Qutbism is considered a product of the extreme repression experienced by Qutb and his fellow Muslim Brothers under the Nasser regime which was resulted from an alleged 1954 Muslim Brothers plot to assassinate Nasser During the repression thousands of Muslim Brothers were imprisoned many of them including Qutb tortured and held in concentration camps 74 Under this condition Qutb had cultivated his Islamist ideology in his seminal work Ma alim fi l Tariq Milestones in which he equated the Muslims within the Nasser regime with secularism and the West and described the contemporary situation as beiing a state of jahiliyyah period of time before the advent of Islam 88 Although Qutb was executed before the completion of his ideology 88 his ideas was disseminated and continuously expanded by the later generations among them Abdullah Yusuf Azzam and Ayman Al Zawahiri who was a student of Qutb s brother Muhammad Qutb and later became a mentor of Osama bin Laden 89 90 Al Zawahiri was considered the purity of Qutb s character and the torment he had endured in prison and had played an extensive role in the normalization of offensive Jihad within the Qutbist discourse 91 Salafi Jihadism Edit Main article Salafi jihadism Salafi jihadism is a term coined by Gilles Kepel in 2002 referring to the ideology which actively promotes and conducts violence and terrorism in order to pursue the establishment of an Islamic state or a new Caliphate 92 93 Today the term is often simplified to Jihadism or Jihadist movement citation needed It is a hybrid ideology between Qutbism Salafism Wahhabism and other minor Islamist strains 87 94 Qutbism taught by scholars like Abdullah Azzam provided the political intellectual underpinnings with concepts like Salafism and Wahhabism providing the religious intellectual input 87 note 1 Salafi Jihadism makes up a minority of the contemporary Islamist movements 96 Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ISIL in Raqqa Syria 2014 Distinct characteristics of Salafi Jihadism noted by Robin Wright include the formal process of taking bay ah oath of allegiance to the leader which is inspired by Hadiths and early Muslim practice and included in Wahhabi teaching 97 Another characteristic is its flexibility to cut ties with the less popular movements when its strategically or financially convenient exemplified by the relations between al Qaeda and al Nusra Front 97 Other marked developments of Salafi Jihadism include the concepts of near enemy and far enemy Near enemy connotes the despotic regime s occupying the Muslim society and the term was coined by Mohammed Abdul Salam Farag in order to justify the assassination of Anwar al Sadat by the Salafi Jihadi organization Egyptian Islamic Jihad EIJ in 1981 98 Later the concept of far enemy which connotes the West was introduced and formally declared by al Qaeda in 1996 98 99 Salafi Jihadism emerged during the 80s when the Soviet invaded Afghanistan 100 Local mujahideen had extracted financial logistical and military support from Saudi Arabia Pakistan and the United States Later Osama bin Laden established al Qaeda as a transnational Salafi Jihadi organization in 1988 to capitalize on this financial logistical and military network and to expand their operation 100 The ideology had seen its rise during the 90s when the Muslim world experienced numerous geopolitical crisis 100 notably the Algerian Civil War 1991 2002 Bosnian War 1992 1995 and the First Chechen War 1994 1996 Within these conflicts political Islam often acted as a mobilizing factor for the local belligerents who demanded financial logistical and military support from al Qaeda in the exchange for active proliferation of the ideology 100 After the 1998 bombings of US embassies September 11 attacks 2001 the US led invasion of Afghanistan 2001 and Iraq 2003 Salafi Jihadism had seen its momentum However it got devastated by the US counterterrorism operations culminating in bin Laden s death in 2011 100 After the Arab Spring 2011 and subsequent Syrian Civil War 2011 present the remnants of al Qaeda franchise in Iraq had restored their capacity which rapidly developed into the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant spreading its influence throughout the conflict zones of MENA region and the globe Explanations for the growth and popularity of Islamism EditSociological and political explanations Edit Charitable work Edit Islamist movements such as the Muslim Brotherhood are well known for providing shelters educational assistance free or low cost medical clinics housing assistance to students from out of town student advisory groups facilitation of inexpensive mass marriage ceremonies to avoid prohibitively costly dowry demands legal assistance sports facilities and women s groups All this compares very favourably against incompetent inefficient or neglectful governments whose commitment to social justice is limited to rhetoric 101 Dissatisfaction with the status quo Edit The Arab world the original heart of the Muslim world has been afflicted with economic stagnation For example it has been estimated that in the mid 1990s the exports of Finland a country of five million exceeded those of the entire Arab world of 260 million excluding oil revenue 102 Strong population growth combined with economic stagnation has created urban agglomerations in Cairo Istanbul Tehran Karachi Dhaka and Jakarta each with well over 12 million citizens millions of them young and unemployed or underemployed 103 Such a demographic alienated from the westernized ways of the urban elite but uprooted from the comforts and more passive traditions of the villages they came from is understandably favourably disposed to an Islamic system promising a better world 104 an ideology providing an emotionally familiar basis for group identity solidarity and exclusion an acceptable basis for legitimacy and authority an immediately intelligible formulation of principles for both a critique of the present and a program for the future 105 Silencing of leftist opposition Edit In the post colonial era many Muslim majority states such as Indonesia Egypt Syria and Iraq were ruled by authoritarian regimes which were often continuously dominated by the same individuals or their cadres for decades Simultaneously the military played a significant part in the government decisions in many of these states the outsized role played by the military could be seen also in democratic Turkey 106 The authoritarian regimes backed by military support took extra measures to silence leftist opposition forces often with the help of foreign powers Silencing of leftist opposition deprived the masses a channel to express their economic grievances and frustration toward the lack of democratic processes 106 As a result in the post Cold War era civil society based Islamist movements such as the Muslim Brotherhood were the only organizations capable to provide avenues of protest 106 The dynamic is repeated after the states had gone through a democratic transition In Indonesia some secular political parties have contributed to the enactment of religious bylaws in order to counter the popularity of Islamist oppositions 107 In Egypt during the short period of the democratic experiment Muslim Brotherhood seized the momentum by being the most cohesive political movement among the opposition 108 Ideology Edit Strength of identity politics Edit Protests against Basuki Tjahaja Purnama Christian governor of Jakarta 2 December 2016 Islamism can also be described as part of identity politics specifically the religiously oriented nationalism that emerged in the Third World in the 1970s resurgent Hinduism in India Religious Zionism in Israel militant Buddhism in Sri Lanka resurgent Sikh nationalism in the Punjab Liberation Theology of Catholicism in Latin America and Islamism in the Muslim world 109 Islamic revival Edit Further information Islamic revival and Islam and modernity The modern revival of Islamic devotion and the attraction to things Islamic can be traced to several events By the end of World War I most Muslim states were seen to be dominated by the Christian leaning Western states Explanations offered were that the claims of Islam were false and the Christian or post Christian West had finally come up with another system that was superior or Islam had failed through not being true to itself The second explanation being preferred by Muslims a redoubling of faith and devotion by the faithful was called for to reverse this tide 110 The connection between the lack of an Islamic spirit and the lack of victory was underscored by the disastrous defeat of Arab nationalist led armies fighting Israel under the slogan Land Sea and Air in the 1967 Six Day War compared to the perceived near victory of the Yom Kippur War six years later In that war the military s slogan was God is Great 111 Along with the Yom Kippur War came the Arab oil embargo where the Muslim Persian Gulf oil producing states dramatic decision to cut back on production and quadruple the price of oil made the terms oil Arabs and Islam synonymous with power throughout the world and especially in the Muslim world s public imagination 112 Many Muslims believe as Saudi Prince Saud al Faisal did that the hundreds of billions of dollars in wealth obtained from the Persian Gulf s huge oil deposits were nothing less than a gift from God to the Islamic faithful 113 As the Islamic revival gained momentum governments such as Egypt s which had previously repressed and was still continuing to repress Islamists joined the bandwagon They banned alcohol and flooded the airwaves with religious programming 114 giving the movement even more exposure Alienation from the West Edit Salafi Islamist protest against the anti Islamic film Innocence of Muslims in Sydney 15 September 2012 Muslim alienation from Western ways including its political ways 115 The memory in Muslim societies of the many centuries of cultural and institutional success of Islamic civilization that have created an intense resistance to an alternative civilizational order such as Western civilization 116 The proximity of the core of the Muslim world to Europe and Christendom where it first conquered and then was conquered Iberia in the eighth century the Crusades which began in the eleventh century then for centuries the Ottoman Empire were all fields of war between Europe and Islam 117 In the words of Bernard Lewis For almost a thousand years from the first Moorish landing in Spain to the second Turkish siege of Vienna Europe was under constant threat from Islam In the early centuries it was a double threat not only of invasion and conquest but also of conversion and assimilation All but the easternmost provinces of the Islamic realm had been taken from Christian rulers and the vast majority of the first Muslims west of Iran and Arabia were converts from Christianity Their loss was sorely felt and it heightened the fear that a similar fate was in store for Europe 118 The Islamic world felt its own anger and resentment at the much more recent technological superiority of westerners who are the perpetual teachers we the perpetual students Generation after generation this asymmetry has generated an inferiority complex forever exacerbated by the fact that their innovations progress at a faster pace than we can absorb them The best tool to reverse the inferiority complex to a superiority complex Islam would give the whole culture a sense of dignity 119 For Islamists the primary threat of the West is cultural rather than political or economic Cultural dependency robs one of faith and identity and thus destroys Islam and the Islamic community ummah far more effectively than political rule 120 The end of the Cold War and Soviet occupation of Afghanistan has eliminated the common atheist Communist enemy uniting some religious Muslims and the capitalist west 121 Geopolitics Edit State sponsorship Edit Saudi Arabia Edit See also International propagation of conservative Sunni Islam Starting in the mid 1970s the Islamic resurgence was funded by an abundance of money from Saudi Arabian oil exports 122 The tens of billions of dollars in petro Islam largesse obtained from the recently heightened price of oil funded an estimated 90 of the expenses of the entire faith 123 Throughout the Muslim world religious institutions for people both young and old from children s madrassas to high level scholarships received Saudi funding 124 books scholarships fellowships and mosques for example more than 1500 mosques were built and paid for with money obtained from public Saudi funds over the last 50 years 125 along with training in the Kingdom for the preachers and teachers who went on to teach and work at these universities schools mosques etc 126 The funding was also used to reward journalists and academics who followed the Saudis strict interpretation of Islam and satellite campuses were built around Egypt for Al Azhar University the world s oldest and most influential Islamic university 127 The interpretation of Islam promoted by this funding was the strict conservative Saudi based Wahhabism or Salafism In its harshest form it preached that Muslims should not only always oppose infidels in every way but hate them for their religion for Allah s sake that democracy is responsible for all the horrible wars of the 20th century that Shia and other non Wahhabi Muslims were infidels etc 128 While this effort has by no means converted all or even most Muslims to the Wahhabist interpretation of Islam it has done much to overwhelm more moderate local interpretations and has set the Saudi interpretation of Islam as the gold standard of religion in minds of some or many Muslims 129 Qatar Edit Further information Muslim Brotherhood Though the much smaller Qatar could not provide the same level of funding as Saudi Arabia it was also a petroleum exporter and also sponsored Islamist groups Qatar backed the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt even after the 2013 overthrow of the MB regime of Mohamed Morsi with Qatar ruler Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani denouncing the coup 130 In June 2016 Mohamed Morsi was sentenced to a life sentence for passing state secrets to Qatar 131 132 Qatar has also backed Islamist factions in Libya Syria and Yemen In Libya in particular Qatar has supported the Islamist government established in Tripoli 133 During the 2011 revolution that ousted President Muammar Gaddafi Qatar provided tens of millions of dollars in aid military training and more than 20 000 tons of weapons to anti Gaddafi rebels and Islamist militias in particular The flow of weapons was not suspended after Gaddafi s government was removed 134 135 Qatar supported cleric Ali al Sallabi the leader of the Islamist militia February 17 Katiba Ismail al Sallabi and the Tripoli Military Council leader Abdel Hakim Belhaj 134 135 Hamas in Palestine has received considerable financial support 136 hosting Hamas politburo since 2012 which has met with international delegations on Qatari territory 135 More recently Qatar has been accused of channeling material support to Hamas terrorist operations under the guise of assisting Gaza reconstruction 137 Hamas politburo maintains that most of Qatar s support has been collected through charities and popular committees 138 Western support of Islamism during the Cold War Edit Further information CIA activities in Afghanistan Operation Cyclone and Afghan mujahideen Afghan mujahideen representatives with President Ronald Reagan at the White House in 1983 During the Cold War particularly during the 1950s during the 1960s and during most of the 1970s the U S and other countries in the Western Bloc occasionally attempted to take advantage of the rise of Islamic revival fervor by directing it against leftist communist nationalist insurgents adversaries particularly against the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc states because a part of the Communist ideology was atheistic During a September 1957 White House meeting between U S President Eisenhower and senior U S foreign policy officials the president and the officials decided to use the communists lack of religion against them by establishing a secret task force which would deliver weapons to Middle Eastern states including Saudi Arabia We should do everything possible to stress the holy war aspect that has currency in the Middle East President Eisenhower stated in agreement 139 During the 1970s and sometimes later this aid sometimes went to fledgling Islamists and Islamist groups that later came to be seen as dangerous enemies 140 The US spent billions of dollars to aid the mujahideen Muslim Afghanistan enemies of the Soviet Union and non Afghan veterans of the war returned home with their prestige experience ideology and weapons and had considerable impact 141 Although it is a strong opponent of Israel s existence Hamas officially founded in 1987 traces its origins back to institutions and clerics which were supported by Israel in the 1970s and 1980s Israel tolerated and supported Islamist movements in Gaza with figures like Ahmed Yassin as Israel perceived them preferable to the secular and then more powerful al Fatah with the PLO 142 143 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat whose policies included opening Egypt to Western investment infitah transferring Egypt s allegiance from the Soviet Union to the United States and making peace with Israel released Islamists from prison and welcomed home exiles in tacit exchange for political support in his struggle against leftists His encouraging of the emergence of the Islamist movement was said to have been imitated by many other Muslim leaders in the years that followed 144 145 This gentlemen s agreement between Sadat and Islamists broke down in 1975 but not before Islamists came to completely dominate university student unions Sadat was later assassinated and a formidable insurgency was formed in Egypt in the 1990s The French government has also been reported to have promoted Islamist preachers in the hope of channeling Muslim energies into zones of piety and charity 140 History EditMain article History of Islamism Predecessor movements Edit Some Islamic revivalist movements and leaders which pre date Islamism but share some characteristics with it include Ahmad Sirhindi 1564 1624 was largely responsible for the purification reassertion and revival of conservative orthodox Sunni Islam in India during Islam s second millennium 146 147 148 Ibn Taymiyyah a Syrian Islamic jurist during the 13th and 14th centuries argued against the practices such as the celebration of Muhammad s birthday and seeking assistance at the grave of the Prophet 149 Muhammad ibn Abd al Wahhab the founder of Wahhabism advocated doing away with the later religious accretions like worship at graves Shah Waliullah of India was a forerunner of reformist Islamists like Muhammad Abduh Muhammad Iqbal and Muhammad Asad in his belief that there was a constant need for new ijtihad as the Muslim community progressed 150 Sayyid Ahmad Barelvi was a disciple and successor of Shah Waliullah s son who led a jihadist movement and attempted to create an Islamic state based on the enforcement of Islamic law 151 152 the Deobandi movement founded after the defeat of the Indian Rebellion around 1867 led to the establishment of thousands of conservative Islamic schools or madrasahs throughout modern day India Pakistan and Bangladesh 153 Early history Edit Jamal al Din al Afghani The end of the 19th century saw the dismemberment of most of the Muslim Ottoman Empire by non Muslim European colonial powers 154 despite the empire s spending massive sums on Western civilian and military technology to try to modernize and compete with the encroaching European powers In the process the Ottomans went deep into debt to these powers Preaching Islamic alternatives to this humiliating decline were Jamal ad din al Afghani 1837 97 Muhammad Abduh 1849 1905 and Rashid Rida 1865 1935 155 Muhammad Abduh and Al Afghani formed the beginning of the early Islamist movement 156 157 158 159 Abduh s student Rashid Rida is widely regarded as one of the ideological forefathers of contemporary Islamist movements 160 These early Salafiyya Rashid Rida Hassan al Banna and Mustafa al Siba i preached that a truly Islamic society would follow sharia law reject taqlid the blind imitation of earlier authorities 161 restore the Caliphate 162 Sayyid Rashid Rida Edit See also Islamic Political Doctrines of Rashid Rida and The Caliphate or the Supreme Imamate book Syrian Egyptian Islamic scholar Muhammad Rashid Rida first articulated the modern concept of an Islamic state influencing the Muslim Brotherhood and other Sunni Islamist movements In his influential book al Khilafa aw al Imama al Uzma The Caliphate or the Grand Imamate Rida explained that that societies that properly obeyed Sharia would be successful alternatives to the disorder and injustice of both capitalism and socialism 163 This society would be ruled by a Caliphate Sharia Islamic laws would be applied by the ruling Khalifa who would supervise Sharia in a partnership with the Mujtahid ulema juristic clergy trained in Islamic jurisprudence They would engage in Ijtihad by evaluating scripture and govern through shura consultation 164 With the Khilafa providing true Islamic governance Islamic civilization would be revitalised the political and legal independence of the Muslim umma community of Muslim believers would be restored and the heretical influences of Sufism would be cleansed from Islam 165 This doctrine would become the blueprint of future Islamist movements 166 Muhammad Iqbal Edit Main article Muhammad Iqbal See also Two nation theory Muhammad Iqbal was a philosopher poet and politician 167 in British India Though best known as an eminent poet 167 168 he is widely regarded as having inspired the Islamic Nationalism and Pakistan Movement in British India 167 169 170 Iqbal expressed fears that not only would secularism and secular nationalism weaken the spiritual foundations of Islam and Muslim society but that India s Hindu majority population would crowd out Muslim heritage culture and political influence He was elected president of the Muslim League in 1930 and in 1932 In his Allahabad Address on 29 December 1930 Iqbal outlined a vision of an independent state for Muslim majority provinces in northwestern India This address later inspired the Pakistan movement In addition to his Pakistani activism in his travels to Egypt Afghanistan Palestine and Syria he promoted ideas of greater Islamic political co operation and unity calling for the shedding of national differencesThe thoughts and vision of Iqbal later influenced many reformist Islamists e g Muhammad Asad Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi and Ali Shariati Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi Edit Main article Abul Ala Maududi See also Jamaat e Islami Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi 171 172 was an important early twentieth century figure in the Islamic revival in India and then after independence from Britain in Pakistan Trained as a lawyer he worked as a journalist and gained a wide audience with his books translated into many languages which placed Islam in a modern context Maududi also founded the Jamaat e Islami party in 1941 and remained its leader until 1972 Maududi believed that Muslim society could not be Islamic without Sharia and the establishment of an Islamic state to enforce it 173 The state would be based on the principles of tawhid unity of God risala prophethood and khilafa caliphate 174 175 176 177 Maududi was uninterested in violence or populist policies such as came with the Iranian Revolution but sought the gradual changing the hearts and minds of individuals from the top of society downward through an educational process or da wah 178 179 Maududi believed that Islam was all encompassing Everything in the universe is Muslim for it obeys God by submission to His laws 180 The man who denies God is called Kafir concealer because he conceals by his disbelief what is inherent in his nature and embalmed in his own soul 181 182 Muslim Brotherhood Edit Main article Muslim Brotherhood Roughly contemporaneous with Maududi was the founding of the Muslim Brotherhood in Ismailiyah Egypt in 1928 by Hassan al Banna His was arguably the first largest and most influential modern Islamic political religious organization Under the motto the Qur an is our constitution 183 it sought Islamic revival through preaching and also by providing basic community services including schools mosques and workshops Like Maududi Al Banna believed in the necessity of government rule based on Shariah law implemented gradually and by persuasion and of eliminating all Western imperialist influence in the Muslim world 184 Some elements of the Brotherhood though perhaps against orders did engage in violence against the government and its founder Al Banna was assassinated in 1949 in retaliation for the assassination of Egypt s premier Mahmud Fami Naqrashi three months earlier 185 The Brotherhood has suffered periodic repression in Egypt and has been banned several times in 1948 and several years later following confrontations with Egyptian president Gamal Abdul Nasser who jailed thousands of members for several years The Brotherhood expanded to many other countries becoming one of the most influential movements in the Islamic world particularly in the Arab world In Egypt despite periodic repression for many years it was described as semi legal 186 it was the only opposition group in Egypt able to field candidates during elections 187 In the 2011 12 Egyptian parliamentary election the political parties identified as Islamist the Brotherhood s Freedom and Justice Party Salafi Al Nour Party and liberal Islamist Al Wasat Party won 75 of the total seats 188 Mohamed Morsi the candidate of the Muslim Brotherhood s party was the first democratically elected president of Egypt However he was deposed during the 2013 Egyptian coup d etat after mass protests against what were perceived as undemocratic moves by him Today the Muslim Brotherhood is designated as a terrorist organization by Bahrain Russia Syria Egypt Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates Sayyid Qutb 1906 1966 Edit Sayyid Qutb Main article Milestones book See also Sayyid Qutb and Qutbism Qutb a leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood movement is considered by some Fawaz A Gerges to be the founding father and leading theoretician of modern jihadists such as Osama bin Laden 189 190 191 He was executed for allegedly participating in a presidential assassination plot in 1966 Maududi s political ideas influenced Sayyid Qutb Like Maududi he believed Sharia was crucial to Islam so the restoration of its full enforcement was vital to the world Since Sharia had not been fully enforced for centuries Islam had been extinct for a few centuries 192 Qutb preached that Muslims must engage in a two pronged attack of converting individuals through preaching Islam peacefully but also using physical power and jihad 193 Force was necessary because those who have usurped the authority of God would not give up their power without a fight 194 Like Khomeini whom he influenced he believed the West was engaged in a vicious centuries long war against Islam 195 Ascendancy in international politics EditSix Day War 1967 Edit Main article Six Day War The quick and decisive defeat of the armies of several Arab states by one small non Muslim country during the Six Day War constituted a pivotal event in the Arab Muslim world The defeat along with economic stagnation in the defeated countries was blamed on the secular Arab nationalism of the ruling regimes A steep and steady decline in the popularity and credibility of secular socialist and nationalist politics ensued Ba athism Arab socialism and Arab nationalism suffered and different democratic and anti democratic Islamist movements inspired by Maududi and Sayyid Qutb gained ground 196 Iranian Revolution 1978 1979 Edit Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini Main article History of fundamentalist Islam in Iran See also Iranian Revolution and Guardianship of the Islamic Jurists The first modern Islamist state with the possible exception of Zia s Pakistan 197 was established among the Shia of Iran In a major shock to the rest of the world Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini overthrew the secular oil rich well armed pro American monarchy ruled by Shah Muhammad Reza Pahlavi Khomeini believed that complete imitation of the Prophet Mohammad and his successors such as Ali for the restoration of Sharia law was essential to Islam but his vision was not for a peaceful gradual transition The secular Westernizing Muslims were not misguided but agents of the West serving Western interests helping to plunder Muslim lands as part of a long term conspiracy against Islam by Western governments 198 It is the duty of Muslims to destroy all traces of any other sort of government other than true Islamic governance because these are systems of unbelief 199 Troublesome groups that cause corruption in Muslim society and damage Islam and the Islamic state will be eliminated just as The Prophet eliminated the Jews of Bani Qurayza 200 Khomeini and his followers helped translate the works of Mawdudi and Qutb into Persian and were influenced by them but their views differed from them and other Sunni scholars in that As a Shia Khomeini looked to Ali ibn Abi Talib and Husayn ibn Ali Imam but not Caliphs Abu Bakr Omar or Uthman Khomeini talked not about restoring the Caliphate or Sunni Islamic democracy but about establishing a state where the guardianship of the democratic or the dictatorial political system was performed by Shia jurists ulama as the successors of Shia Imams until the Mahdi returns from occultation His concept of velayat e faqih guardianship of the Islamic jurist held that the leading Shia Muslim cleric in society which Khomeini s mass of followers believed and chose to be himself should serve as the supervisor of the state in order to protect or guard Islam and Sharia law from innovation and anti Islamic laws passed by dictators or democratic parliaments 198 The revolution was influenced by Marxism through Islamist thought and also by writings that sought either to counter Marxism Muhammad Baqir al Sadr s work or to integrate socialism and Islamism Ali Shariati s work A strong wing of the revolutionary leadership was made up of leftists or radical populists such as Ali Akbar Mohtashami Pur 201 Support for the Iranian revolution in the Muslim world has waxed and waned Initially enthusiasm was intense and support in the Arab street for its anti Zionism has been strong 202 but purges executions and atrocities tarnished its image 203 as have periodic and widespread domestic unrest and protest The Islamic Republic has also maintained its hold on power in Iran in spite of US economic sanctions and has created or assisted like minded Shia terrorist groups in Iraq Egypt Syria Jordan SCIRI 204 205 and Lebanon Hezbollah 206 two Muslim countries that also have large Shiite populations gt Grand Mosque seizure 1979 Edit Further information Grand Mosque seizure The strength of the Islamist movement was manifest in an event which might have seemed sure to turn Muslim public opinion against fundamentalism but did just the opposite In 1979 the Grand Mosque in Mecca Saudi Arabia was seized by an armed fundamentalist group and held for over a week Scores were killed including many pilgrim bystanders 207 in a gross violation of one of the most holy sites in Islam and one where arms and violence are strictly forbidden 208 209 Instead of prompting a backlash against the movement from which the attackers originated however Saudi Arabia already very conservative responded by shoring up its fundamentalist credentials with even more Islamic restrictions Crackdowns followed on everything from shopkeepers who did not close for prayer and newspapers that published pictures of women to the selling of dolls teddy bears images of animate objects are considered haraam and dog food dogs are considered unclean 210 In other Muslim countries blame for and wrath against the seizure was directed not against fundamentalists but against Islamic fundamentalism s foremost geopolitical enemy the United States Ayatollah Khomeini sparked attacks on American embassies when he announced It is not beyond guessing that this is the work of criminal American imperialism and international Zionism despite the fact that the object of the fundamentalists revolt was the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia America s major ally in the region Anti American demonstrations followed in the Philippines Turkey Bangladesh India the UAE Pakistan and Kuwait The US Embassy in Libya was burned by protesters chanting pro Khomeini slogans and the embassy in Islamabad Pakistan was burned to the ground 211 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan 1979 1989 Edit In 1979 the Soviet Union deployed its 40th Army into Afghanistan attempting to suppress an Islamic rebellion against an allied Marxist regime in the Afghan Civil War The conflict pitting indigenous impoverished Muslims mujahideen against an anti religious superpower galvanized thousands of Muslims around the world to send aid and sometimes to go themselves to fight for their faith Leading this pan Islamic effort was Palestinian sheikh Abdullah Yusuf Azzam While the military effectiveness of these Afghan Arabs was marginal an estimated 16 000 212 to 35 000 Muslim volunteers 213 came from around the world to fight in Afghanistan 213 214 When the Soviet Union abandoned the Marxist Najibullah regime and withdrew from Afghanistan in 1989 the regime finally fell in 1992 the victory was seen by many Muslims as the triumph of Islamic faith over superior military power and technology that could be duplicated elsewhere The jihadists gained legitimacy and prestige from their triumph both within the militant community and among ordinary Muslims as well as the confidence to carry their jihad to other countries where they believed Muslims required assistance 215 The collapse of the Soviet Union itself in 1991 was seen by many Islamists including Bin Laden as the defeat of a superpower at the hands of Islam Concerning the 6 billion in aid given by the US and Pakistan s military training and intelligence support to the mujahideen 216 bin Laden wrote T he US has no mentionable role in the collapse of the Soviet Union rather the credit goes to God and the mujahidin of Afghanistan 217 Persian Gulf War 1990 1991 Edit Another factor in the early 1990s that worked to radicalize the Islamist movement was the Gulf War which brought several hundred thousand US and allied non Muslim military personnel to Saudi Arabian soil to put an end to Saddam Hussein s occupation of Kuwait Prior to 1990 Saudi Arabia played an important role in restraining the many Islamist groups that received its aid But when Saddam secularist and Ba athist dictator of neighboring Iraq attacked Kuwait his enemy in the war western troops came to protect the Saudi monarchy Islamists accused the Saudi regime of being a puppet of the west These attacks resonated with conservative Muslims and the problem did not go away with Saddam s defeat either since American troops remained stationed in the kingdom and a de facto cooperation with the Palestinian Israeli peace process developed Saudi Arabia attempted to compensate for its loss of prestige among these groups by repressing those domestic Islamists who attacked it bin Laden being a prime example and increasing aid to Islamic groups Islamist madrassas around the world and even aiding some violent Islamist groups that did not but its pre war influence on behalf of moderation was greatly reduced 218 One result of this was a campaign of attacks on government officials and tourists in Egypt a bloody civil war in Algeria and Osama bin Laden s terror attacks climaxing in the 9 11 attack 219 2000s Edit By the beginning of the twenty first century the word secular a label proudly worn in the 1960s and 70s was shunned and used to besmirch political foes in Egypt and the rest of the Muslim world 40 Islamists surpassed the small secular opposition parties in terms of doggedness courage risk taking or organizational skills 38 As of 2002 In the Middle East and Pakistan religious discourse dominates societies the airwaves and thinking about the world Radical mosques have proliferated throughout Egypt Book stores are dominated by works with religious themes The demand for sharia the belief that their governments are unfaithful to Islam and that Islam is the answer to all problems and the certainty that the West has declared war on Islam these are the themes that dominate public discussion Islamists may not control parliaments or government palaces but they have occupied the popular imagination 220 Opinion polls in a variety of Islamic countries showed that significant majorities opposed groups like ISIS but also wanted religion to play a greater role in public life 221 Post Islamism Edit By 2020 approximately 40 years after the Islamic overthrow of the Shah of Iran and the seizure of the Grand Mosque by extremists a number of observers Olivier Roy Mustafa Akyol Nader Hashemi detected a decline in the vigor and popularity of Islamism Islamism had been an idealized utopian concept to compare with the grim reality of the status quo but in more than four decades it had failed to establish a concrete and viable blueprint for society despite repeated efforts Olivier Roy 222 and instead had left a less than inspiring track record of its impact on the world Nader Hashemi 223 Consequently in addition to the trend towards moderation by Islamist or formerly Islamist parties such as PKS of Indonesia AKP of Turkey and PAS of Malaysia mentioned above there has been a social religious and sometimes political backlash against Islamist rule in countries like Turkey Iran and Sudan Mustafa Akyol 224 Writing in 2020 Mustafa Akyol argues there has been a strong reaction by many Muslims against political Islam including a weakening of religious faith the very thing Islamism was intended to strengthen He suggests this backlash against Islamism among Muslim youth has come from all the terrible things that have happened in the Arab world in the twenty first century in the name of Islam such as the sectarian civil wars in Syria Iraq and Yemen 224 Polls taken by Arab Barometer in six Arab countries Algeria Egypt Tunisia Jordan Iraq and Libya found Arabs are losing faith in religious parties and leaders In 2018 19 in all six countries fewer than 20 of those asked whether they trusted Islamist parties answered in the affirmative That percentage had fallen in all six countries from when the same question was asked in 2012 14 Mosque attendance also declined more than 10 points on average and the share of those Arabs describing themselves as not religious went from 8 in 2013 to 13 in 2018 19 225 224 In Syria Sham al Ali reports Rising apostasy among Syrian youths 226 224 Writing in 2021 Nader Hashemi notes that in Iraq Sudan Tunisia Egypt Gaza Jordan and other places were Islamist parties have come to power or campaigned to one general theme stands The popular prestige of political Islam has been tarnished by its experience with state power 227 223 In Iran hardline Ayatollah Mohammad Taqi Mesbah Yazdi has complained Iranians are evading religious teachings and turning to secularism 228 Even Islamist terrorism was in decline and tended to be local rather than pan Islamic As of 2021 Al Qaeda consisted of a bunch of militias with no effective central command Fareed Zakaria 227 Rise of Islamism by country EditAfghanistan Taliban Edit Flag of the Taliban Main article Taliban In Afghanistan the mujahideen s victory against the Soviet Union in the 1980s did not lead to justice and prosperity due to a vicious and destructive civil war between political and tribal warlords making Afghanistan one of the poorest countries on earth In 1992 the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan ruled by communist forces collapsed and democratic Islamist elements of mujahideen founded the Islamic State of Afghanistan In 1996 a more conservative and anti democratic Islamist movement known as the Taliban rose to power defeated most of the warlords and took over roughly 80 of Afghanistan The Taliban were spawned by the thousands of madrasahs the Deobandi movement established for impoverished Afghan refugees and supported by governmental and religious groups in neighboring Pakistan 229 The Taliban differed from other Islamist movements to the point where they might be more properly described as Islamic fundamentalist or neofundamentalist interested in spreading an idealized and systematized version of conservative tribal village customs under the label of Sharia to an entire country citation needed Their ideology was also described as being influenced by Wahhabism and the extremist jihadism of their guest Osama bin Laden 230 231 The Taliban considered politics to be against Sharia and thus did not hold elections They were led by Abdul Ghani Baradar and Mohammed Omar who was given the title Amir al Mu minin or Commander of the Faithful and a pledge of loyalty by several hundred Taliban selected Pashtun clergy in April 1996 Taliban were overwhelmingly Pashtun and were accused of not sharing power with the approximately 60 of Afghans who belonged to other ethnic groups see Taliban Ideology and aims 232 The Taliban s hosting of Osama bin Laden led to an American organized attack which drove them from power following the 9 11 attacks 233 The Taliban continued to fight a vigorous insurgency with suicide bombings and armed attacks being launched against NATO and Afghan government targets The Taliban re established control of the country in 2021 following a 2020 peace agreement with the United States and the overthrow of the US backed government Algeria Edit See also Algerian Civil War and List of Algerian massacres of the 1990s The FIS emblem In 1989 a broad Islamist coalition movement was founded in Algeria known as the FIS or Front Islamique de Salut the Islamic Salvation Front Led by Abbassi Madani and a charismatic Islamist young preacher Ali Belhadj it was influenced by Salafism and the jihad in Afghanistan as well as the Muslim Brotherhood Taking advantage of economic failure and unpopular social liberalization and secularization of the ruling leftist nationalist FLN government it used its preaching to advocate the establishment of a legal system following Sharia law economic liberalization and development program education in Arabic rather than French and gender segregation with women staying home to alleviate the high rate of unemployment among young Algerian men The FIS won sweeping victories in local elections and was set to win national elections in 1991 when voting was canceled by a military coup d etat As Islamists took up arms to overthrow the government the FIS s leaders were arrested and it became overshadowed by Islamist guerrilla groups particularly the Islamic Salvation Army MIA and Armed Islamic Group or GIA A bloody and devastating civil war ensued in which between 150 000 and 200 000 people were killed over the next decade The civil war was not a victory for Islamists By 2002 the main guerrilla groups had either been destroyed or had surrendered The popularity of Islamist parties has declined to the point that the Islamist candidate Abdallah Jaballah came a distant third with 5 of the vote in the 2004 presidential election 234 Bangladesh Edit Jamaat e Islami Bangladesh is the largest Islamist party in the country and supports the implementation of Sharia law and promotes the country s main right wing politics Since 2000 the main political opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party BNP has been allied with it and another Islamic party Islami Oikya Jote Some of their leaders and supporters including former ministers and MPs have been hanged for alleged war crimes during Bangladesh s struggle for independence and speaking against the ruling Bangladesh Awami League 235 Belgium Edit In the 2012 the party named Islam had four candidates and they were elected in Molenbeek and Anderlecht 236 In 2018 they ran candidates in 28 municipalities Its policies include schools must offer halal food and women must be able to wear a headscarf anywhere 237 Another of the Islam Party s goals is to separate men and women on public transportation The party s president argues this policy will help protect women from sexual harassment 238 Denmark Edit See also Islam in Denmark and Terrorism in Denmark The Islamist movements gradually grew since the 1990s The first Islamist groups and networks were predominantly influenced by the countries they immigrated from Those involved had close contact with militant Islamists in the Middle East South Asia and North Africa Their operations had supporting militant groups financially as their first priority Since the 1990s people from the Islamist movements joined several conflicts to train with or participate in fighting with Islamist militants 239 In the 2000s the Islamist movements grew and by 2014 there were militants among the Islamist movements in Copenhagen Aarhus and Odense Several people from crime gangs join Islamist movements that sympathise with militant Islamism The militant Islamist movement were estimated to encompass some hundreds in 2014 239 The Danish National Centre for Social Research released a report commissioned by the Ministry of Children Integration and Social Affairs documenting 15 extremist groups operating in Denmark Most were non Muslim far right or far left groups but five were Sunni Islamist groups These Sunni Islamist groups include Hizb ut Tahrir Denmark Dawah baerere Dawah Carriers Kaldet til Islam The Call to Islam Dawah centret The Dawah Centre and the Muslimsk Ungdomscenter The Muslim Youth Centre All of these Sunni Islamist groups operate in Greater Copenhagen with the exception of Muslimsk Ungdomscenter which operates in Aarhus Altogether roughly 195 to 415 Muslims belong to one of these organizations and most are young men 240 Egypt Jihadism Edit Main articles Egyptian Islamist movements and Revolutionary Islamism in 20th century Egypt While Qutb s ideas became increasingly radical during his imprisonment prior to his execution in 1966 the leadership of the Brotherhood led by Hasan al Hudaybi remained moderate and interested in political negotiation and activism Fringe or splinter movements inspired by the final writings of Qutb in the mid 1960s particularly the manifesto Milestones a k a Ma alim fi l Tariq did however develop and they pursued a more radical direction 241 By the 1970s the Brotherhood had renounced violence as a means of achieving its goals The path of violence and military struggle was then taken up by the Egyptian Islamic Jihad organization responsible for the assassination of Anwar Sadat in 1981 Unlike earlier anti colonial movements the extremist group directed its attacks against what it believed were apostate leaders of Muslim states leaders who held secular leanings or who had introduced or promoted Western foreign ideas and practices into Islamic societies Its views were outlined in a pamphlet written by Muhammad Abd al Salaam Farag in which he states there is no doubt that the first battlefield for jihad is the extermination of these infidel leaders and to replace them by a complete Islamic Order Another of the Egyptian groups which employed violence in their struggle for Islamic order was al Gama a al Islamiyya Islamic Group Victims of their campaign against the Egyptian state in the 1990s included the head of the counter terrorism police Major General Raouf Khayrat a parliamentary speaker Rifaat al Mahgoub dozens of European tourists and Egyptian bystanders and over 100 Egyptian police 242 Ultimately the campaign to overthrow the government was unsuccessful and the major jihadi group Jamaa Islamiya or al Gama a al Islamiyya renounced violence in 2003 243 Other lesser known groups include the Islamic Liberation Party Salvation from Hell and Takfir wal Hijra and these groups have variously been involved in activities such as attempted assassinations of political figures arson of video shops and attempted takeovers of government buildings 244 France Edit The Democratic Union of Muslims French Union des democrates musulmans francais fr UDMF a party founded in 2012 planned to take part in 2019 municipal elections They presented candidate lists for 50 different cities 245 The UDMF also fielded candidates for European Parliament elections The rise of the party can be attributed to French Muslim dissatisfaction with mainstream political parties 246 Gerald Darmanin Minister of the Interior of France said in his book Le separatisme Islamiste Islamism the most powerful ideology in the world has deprived Islam of its voice 247 Law against Islamist extremism Edit See also Murder of Samuel Paty After the murder of Paty a bill was put forward to fight Islamist extremism and separatism to fight the roots of jihadist violence It was approved by the National Assembly in February 2021 248 A new bill was introduced which makes it unlawful to threaten a public servant in order to gain an exception or special treatment which carries a penalty of up to five years in prison The legislation expands the powers of authorities to close places of worship and religious organisations when they promote hate or violence The law requires religious funds from abroad exceeding 10 000 to be declared and the relevant accounts to be certified so as to regulate the donations from countries such as Turkey Qatar and Saudi Arabia Millions of euros in funding had previously reached France from countries such as Turkey Morocco and Saudi Arabia 248 249 It provides stricter rules for allowing home schooling in order to prevent parents taking children out of school in order to let them pursue their education in underground Islamist institutions Doctors performing virginity tests would be subject to fines or prison sentences These changes were prompted by a number of cases of Muslim men trying to have their marriages annulled by accusing their spouse of having had sex before marriage 249 Authorities will have to refuse residency documents to applicants who practise polygamy 248 249 Forced marriages thought by whom to affect around 200 000 women in France were likewise to be combated with greater scrutiny from registrars 249 Muslim Brotherhood in France Edit The brotherhood s build up in France started with Union des organisations islamiques en France UOIF which later changed its name to Musulmans de France The organization primarily consisted of foreign students who entered France from Tunisia and Morocco By 2020 there were 147 mosques and 18 Islamic schools associated with the brotherhood UOIF has about 50 000 members distributed among 200 member organizations 250 The Brotherhood pursues a communitarianist philiosophy and works against Muslims adopting liberal lifestyles and becoming assimilated into French society In the long term they aim towards entering politics by increasing the number of Muslims until they can form a political party of their own 250 Gaza Hamas Edit The Hamas flag Hamas is a Palestinian Sunni Islamist organization that governs the Gaza Strip where it has moved to establish sharia law in matters such as separation of the genders using the lash for punishment and Islamic dress code 251 Hamas also has a military resistance wing the Izz ad Din al Qassam Brigades 252 For some decades prior to the First Palestine Intifada in 1987 253 the Muslim Brotherhood in Palestine took a quiescent stance towards Israel 254 focusing on preaching education and social services and benefiting from Israel s indulgence to build up a network of mosques and charitable organizations 255 As the First Intifada gathered momentum and Palestinian shopkeepers closed their shops in support of the uprising the Brotherhood announced the formation of HAMAS zeal devoted to Jihad against Israel Rather than being more moderate than the PLO the 1988 Hamas charter took a more uncompromising stand calling for the destruction of Israel and the establishment of an Islamic state in Palestine 256 It was soon competing with and then overtaking the PLO for control of the intifada The Brotherhood s base of devout middle class found common cause with the impoverished youth of the intifada in their cultural conservatism and antipathy for activities of the secular middle class such as drinking alcohol and going about without hijab 257 Hamas has continued to play a significant role in the Israeli Palestinian conflict From 2000 to 2007 it killed 542 people in 140 suicide bombing or martyrdom operations 256 In the January 2006 legislative election its first foray into the political process it won the majority of the seats 256 and in 2007 it drove the PLO out of Gaza Hamas has been praised by Muslims for driving Israel out of the Gaza Strip 256 but criticized for failure to achieve its demands in the 2008 09 and 2014 Gaza Wars despite heavy destruction and significant loss of life 258 Iraq and Syria Islamic State Edit See also Islamic State This section needs expansion You can help by adding to it February 2022 Pakistan Edit See also Zia ul Haq s Islamization and Objectives Resolution Early in the history of the state of Pakistan 12 March 1949 a parliamentary resolution the Objectives Resolution was adopted in accordance with the vision of founding fathers of Pakistan Muhammad Iqbal Muhammad Ali Jinnah Liaquat Ali Khan citation needed proclaiming Sovereignty belongs to Allah alone but He has delegated it to the State of Pakistan through its people for being exercised within the limits prescribed by Him as a sacred trust The State shall exercise its powers and authority through the elected representatives of the people The principles of democracy freedom equality tolerance and social justice as enunciated by Islam shall be fully observed Muslims shall be enabled to order their lives in the individual and collective spheres in accordance with the teachings of Islam as set out in the Quran and Sunnah Provision shall be made for the religious minorities to freely profess and practice their religions and develop their cultures This resolution later became a key source of inspiration for writers of the Constitution of Pakistan and is included in the constitution as preamble In July 1977 General Zia ul Haq overthrew Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto s regime in Pakistan Ali Bhutto a leftist in democratic competition with Islamists had announced banning alcohol and nightclubs within six months shortly before he was overthrown 259 Zia ul Haq was much more committed to Islamism and Islamization or implementation of Islamic law became a cornerstone of his eleven year military dictatorship and Islamism became his official state ideology Zia ul Haq was an admirer of Mawdudi and Mawdudi s party Jamaat e Islami became the regime s ideological and political arm 260 In Pakistan this Islamization from above was probably more complete than under any other regime except those in Iran and Sudan but Zia ul Haq was also criticized by many Islamists for imposing symbols rather than substance and using Islamization to legitimize his means of seizing power 261 Unlike neighboring Iran Zia ul Haq s policies were intended to avoid revolutionary excess and not to strain relations with his American and Persian Gulf state allies 262 Zia ul Haq was killed in 1988 but Islamization remains an important element in Pakistani society Sudan Edit Main article Islamism in Sudan See also National Islamic Front and National Congress Sudan For many years Sudan had an Islamist regime under the leadership of Hassan al Turabi His National Islamic Front first gained influence when strongman General Gaafar al Nimeiry invited members to serve in his government in 1979 Turabi built a powerful economic base with money from foreign Islamist banking systems especially those linked with Saudi Arabia He also recruited and built a cadre of influential loyalists by placing sympathetic students in the university and military academy while serving as minister of education 65 After al Nimeiry was overthrown in 1985 the party did poorly in national elections but in 1989 it was able to overthrow the elected post al Nimeiry government with the help of the military Turabi was noted for proclaiming his support for the democratic process and a liberal government before coming to power but strict application of sharia law torture and mass imprisonment of the opposition 64 and an intensification of the long running war in southern Sudan 263 once in power The NIF regime also harbored Osama bin Laden for a time before 9 11 and worked to unify Islamist opposition to the American attack on Iraq in the 1991 Gulf War After Sudanese intelligence services were implicated in an assassination attempt on the President of Egypt UN economic sanctions were imposed on Sudan a poor country and Turabi fell from favor 264 He was imprisoned for a time in 2004 05 Some of the NIF policies such as the war with the non Muslim south have been reversed though the National Islamic Front still holds considerable power in the government of Omar al Bashir and National Congress Party another Islamist party in country Switzerland Edit Switzerland is not normally seen as a center of Islamism especially when compared to countries such as Belgium or France However from 2012 to 2018 the majority of the country s jihadist and would be jihadist population were radicalized in Switzerland 265 Turkey Edit Necmettin Erbakan elected in 1996 was the second Islamist Prime Minister of Turkey after Semsettin Gunaltay but was removed from power by a postmodern coup d etat in 1997 Turkey had a number of Islamist parties often changing names as they were banned by the constitutional court for anti secular activities Necmettin Erbakan 1926 2011 was the leader of several of the parties the National Order Party Milli Nizam Partisi 1970 1971 the National Salvation Party Milli Selamet Partisi 1972 1981 and the Welfare Party Refah Partisi 1983 1998 he also became a member of the Felicity Party Saadet Partisi 2003 2011 Current Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has long been considered a champion of political Islam 266 The Justice and Development Party AKP which has dominated Turkish politics since 2002 is sometimes described as Islamist but rejects such classification 267 Contemporary era Edit By country Edit Various Islamist political groups are dominant forces in the political systems of Afghanistan Iran and Iraq 268 The Green Algeria Alliance is an Islamist coalition of political parties created for the legislative election of 2012 in Algeria It includes the Movement of Society for Peace Hamas Islamic Renaissance Movement Ennahda and the Movement for National Reform Islah 269 The alliance is led by Bouguerra Soltani of Hamas 270 However the incumbent coalition comprising the FLN of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and the RND of Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia held on to power after winning a majority of seats and the Islamist parties of the Green Algeria Alliance lost seats in the legislative election of 2012 271 272 Shia Islamist Al Wefaq Salafi Islamist Al Asalah and Ikhwani brotherhood Islamist Al Menbar Islamic Society are dominant democratic forces in Bahrain 273 In Indonesia Prosperous Justice Party is the major Islamist political party in the country s democratic process 274 275 276 Islamic Action Front is Jordan s Islamist political party and largest democratic political force in the country The IAF s survival in Jordan is primarily due to its flexibility and less radical approach to politics 277 Hadas or Islamic Constitutional Movement is Kuwait s Sunni Islamist party Islamic Group Lebanon is a Sunni Islamist political party in Lebanon Hezbollah is a Shia Islamist political party in Lebanon citation needed The Justice and Construction Party is the Muslim Brotherhood s political arm in Libya and the second largest political force in the country 278 279 280 The National Forces Alliance the largest political group in country does not believe the country should be run entirely by Sharia law or secular law but does hold that Sharia should be the main inspiration for legislation Party leader Jibril has said the NFA is a moderate Islamic movement that recognises the importance of Islam in political life and favours Sharia as the basis of the law 281 The Pan Malaysian Islamic Party is a major opposition party in Malaysia which espouses Islamism citation needed The Justice and Development Party Morocco is the ruling party in Morocco since 29 November 2011 advocating Islamism and Islamic democracy 282 283 The Muslim Brotherhood of Syria is a Sunni Islamist force in Syria and very loosely affiliated to the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood It has also been called the dominant group or dominant force in the Arab Spring uprising in Syria 284 The group s stated political positions are moderate and in its most recent April 2012 manifesto it pledges to respect individual rights to promote pluralism and democracy 285 The Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan is Tajikistan s Islamist party and main opposition and democratic force in the country 286 The Ennahda Movement also known as Renaissance Party or simply Ennahda is a moderate Islamist political party in Tunisia 287 288 289 290 On 1 March 2011 after the government of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali collapsed in the wake of the 2011 Tunisian revolution Tunisia s interim government granted the group permission to form a political party Since then it has become the biggest and most well organized party in Tunisia so far outdistancing its more secular competitors In the Tunisian Constituent Assembly election of 2011 the first honest election in the country s history with a turnout of 51 of all eligible voters the party won 37 of the popular vote and 89 41 of the 217 assembly seats far more than any other party 291 292 293 294 Eastern Africa has become a hotbed of violent Islamic extremism since the late 1990s one of the relevant movements being al Shabaab based in Somalia which emerged in response to the 2006 09 Ethiopian intervention in Somalia 295 West Africa has seen the rise of influential Islamic extremist organizations notably Boko Haram in Northern Nigeria and al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb in Mali 296 Hizb ut Tahrir Edit Main article Hizb ut Tahrir Hizb ut Tahrir is an influential international Islamist movement founded in 1953 by an Islamic Qadi judge Taqiuddin al Nabhani HT is unique from most other Islamist movements in that the party focuses not on implementation of Sharia on local level or on providing social services but on unifying the Muslim world under its vision of a new Islamic caliphate spanning from North Africa and the Middle East to much of central and South Asia To this end it has drawn up and published a 186 article constitution for its proposed caliphate state specifying specific policies such as sharia law a unitary ruling system headed by a caliph elected by Muslims an economy based on the gold standard public ownership of utilities public transport and energy resources death for apostates and Arabic as the sole language of the State 297 298 In its focus on the Caliphate the party takes a different view of Muslim history than some other Islamists such as Muhammad Qutb HT sees Islam s pivotal turning point as occurring not with the death of Ali or one of the other four rightly guided caliphs in the 7th century but with the abolition of the Ottoman Caliphate in 1924 This is believed to have ended the true Islamic system something for which it blames the disbelieving Kafir colonial powers working through Turkish modernist Mustafa Kemal Ataturk 299 HT does not engage in armed jihad or work for a democratic system but works to take power through ideological struggle to change Muslim public opinion and in particular through elites who will facilitate a change of the government i e launch a bloodless coup It allegedly attempted and failed such coups in 1968 and 1969 in Jordan and in 1974 in Egypt and is now banned in both countries 300 The party is sometimes described as Leninist and rigidly controlled by its central leadership 301 with its estimated one million members required to spend at least two years studying party literature under the guidance of mentors Murshid before taking the party oath 301 HT is particularly active in the ex soviet republics of Central Asia and in Europe Post Arab Spring 2011 present Edit One observer Quinn Mecham notes four trends in Islamism rising from the Arab Spring of 2010 11 The repression of the Muslim Brotherhood Primarily by the Egyptian military and courts following the forcible removal of Morsi from office in 2013 but also by Saudi Arabia and a number of Gulf countries not Qatar 302 303 Rise of Islamist state building where state failure has taken place most prominently in Syria Iraq Libya and Yemen Islamists have found it easier than competing non Islamists trying to fill the void of state failure by securing external funding weaponry and fighters many of which have come from abroad and have rallied around a pan Islamic identity The norms of governance in these Islamist areas are militia based and the population submit to their authority out of fear loyalty other reasons or some combination 302 The most expansive of these new models is the Islamic State 302 Increasing sectarianism at least in part from proxy wars Fighters are proxies primarily for Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states and for Iran Islamists are fighting Islamists across sectarian lines in Lebanon Sunni militants targeting Hezbollah positions Yemen between mainstream Sunni Islamists of Islah and the Shiite Zaydi Houthi movement in Iraq Islamic State and Iraqi Shiite militias 302 Increased caution and political learning in countries such as Algeria and Jordan where Islamist have chosen not to lead a major challenge against their governments In Yemen Islah has sought to frame its ideology in a way that will avoid charges of militancy 302 Another observer Tarek Osman notes with concern that the failure to take power during the Arab Spring has led not to soul searching in major Islamist groups about what went wrong but instead to antagonism and fiery anger and a thirst for revenge Partisans of political Islam although this does not include some prominent leaders such as Rached Ghannouchi but is particularly true in Egypt see themselves as victims of an injustice whose perpetrators are not just individual conspirators but entire social groups 304 Islamic State Edit Main article Islamic State ISIL s territory in grey at the time of its greatest territorial extent in May 2015 The Islamic State formerly known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and before that the Islamic State of Iraq also called by the Arabic acronym Daesh is a Wahhabi Salafi jihadist extremist militant group which is led by and mainly composed of Sunni Arabs from Syria and Iraq 305 In 2014 the group proclaimed itself a caliphate with religious political and military authority over all Muslims worldwide 306 As of March 2015 update it had control over territory occupied by ten million people 307 in Syria and Iraq and has nominal control over small areas of Libya Nigeria and Afghanistan 308 309 While a self described state it lacks international recognition 310 ISIL also operates or has affiliates in other parts of the world including North Africa and South Asia 311 312 Originating as the Jama at al Tawhid wal Jihad in 1999 ISIL pledged allegiance to al Qaeda in 2004 participated in the Iraqi insurgency that followed the invasion of Iraq by Western coalition forces in 2003 joined the fight in the Syrian Civil War beginning in 2011 and was expelled from al Qaeda in early 2014 which complained of its failure to consult and notorious intransigence 313 314 ISIL gained prominence after it drove Iraqi government forces out of key cities in western Iraq in an offensive in June that same year 315 The group is adept at social media posting Internet videos of beheadings of soldiers civilians journalists and aid workers and is known for its destruction of cultural heritage sites 316 The United Nations UN has held ISIL responsible for human rights abuses and war crimes and Amnesty International has reported ethnic cleansing by the group on a historic scale The group has been designated a terrorist organisation by the UN the European Union EU and member states the United States India Indonesia Turkey Saudi Arabia Syria and other countries Islamism in the Shia World EditSee also Islamist Shi ism Shiʿa Islam is the second largest branch of Islam followed by 10 15 of all Muslims 317 Twelver Shiʿism is the largest branch of Shiʿa Islam 318 comprising about 85 of all Shiʿa Muslims 319 Islamist Shi ism Persian تشیع اخوانی is a minority denomination of Twelver Shi ism which was influenced by the Sunni Muslim Brotherhood ideologies and it is also a politicized version of Ibn Arabi s mysticism 320 321 It sees Islam as a political system and it also differs from the other mainstream Usuli and Akhbari groups because it advocates the formation of an Islamist state before the end of the occultation of the twelfth Imam 322 323 Islamist Shi ism took its shape during the Cold War and appeared on international stage after Iranian Revolution of 1979 It has been crucial in worldwide Islamism since the Iranian regime decided to export its revolution 324 Although the Islamist ideology was originally imported from Muslim Brotherhood Iranian relations with Muslim Brotherhood has also deteriorated due to its involvement in the Syrian civil war 325 However the majority Usuli Shi ism rejects the idea of an Islamist State in the period of Occultation of the Hidden Imam 326 The Inherent Secularity Edit See also Muhammad Kazim Khurasani Muhammad Kazim Khurasani Persian محمد کاظم خراسانی 1839 12 December 1911 commonly known as Akhund Khurasani Persian آخوند خراسانی 327 328 is one of the greatest theorists of Usuli Shi ism in modern times Occultation of Imam in Shia Islam refers to a belief that Mahdi a cultivated male descendant of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad has already been born and subsequently went into occultation from which he will one day emerge with Jesus and establish global justice During the first democratic revolution of Asia the Iranian Constitutional Revolution Shia Marja Akhund Khurasani and his colleagues theorized a model of religious secularity in the absence of Imam that still prevails in Shia seminaries 326 In absence of the ideal ruler that is Imam al Mahdi democracy was the best available option 329 He considers opposition to constitutional democracy hostility towards the twelfth Imam because an Islamic system of governance can not be established without the leadership of the infallible Imam 330 Thus a democratic legislation can help reduce the state s tyranny and maintain peace and security He said 331 Because it is sanctioned by sacred law and religion Akhund believes a theocratic government can only be formed by the infallible Imam 332 Aqa Buzurg Tehrani also quoted Akhund Khurasani saying that if there was a possibility of establishment of a truly legitimate Islamic rule in any age God must end occultation of the Imam of Age Hence he refuted the idea of absolute guardianship of jurist 333 Therefore according to Akhund Shia jurists must support the democratic reform He prefers collective wisdom Persian عقل جمعی over individual opinions and limits the role of jurist to provide religious guidance in personal affairs of a believer 334 He defines democracy as a system of governance that enforces a set of limitations and conditions on the head of state and government employees so that they work within boundaries that the laws and religion of every nation determines Akhund believes that modern secular laws complement traditional religion He asserts that both religious rulings and the laws outside the scope of religion confront state despotism 335 Constitutionalism is based on the idea of defending the nation s inherent and natural liberties and as absolute power corrupts a democratic distribution of power would make it possible for the nation to live up to its full potential 335 The First Democratic Revolution of Asia Edit See also Persian Constitutional Revolution The city of Najaf has played the role of nerve center in Shia world through centuries In the 1900s at the dawn of constitutional revolution it was here that the political ideas were discussed and the religious secularity of Shia jurisprudence took shape Many periodicals of the time especially al Ghura Durat al Najaf and Najaf published from the city reflect the nature of the intellectual exchange during the movement 336 Other publications such as Calcutta based Habl al Matin also reached the residents of Najaf 336 Najaf had developed its own taste of modernity distinct from west These publications advocated the concepts of personal liberty nation state modern sciences constitutional monarchy and democracy But they also viewed western colonial advance as intimidating and understood that the only way to fight back was creating a strong and progressive nation 336 The trio left to right Akhund Khurasani Mirza Husayn Tehrani and Abdullah Mazandarani The fourth Qajar King Naser al Din Shah was assassinated by Mirza Reza Kermani a follower of Jamal al Din al Afghani when he was visiting and praying in the Shah Abdul Azim Shrine on 1 May 1896 At Mozaffar al Din Shah s accession Persia faced a financial crisis with annual governmental expenditures far in excess of revenues as a result of the policies of his father During his reign Mozzafar ad Din attempted some reforms of the central treasury however the previous debt incurred by the Qajar court owed to both England and Russia significantly undermined this effort He awarded William Knox D Arcy a British subject the rights to oil in most of the country in 1901 337 Widespread fears amongst the aristocracy educated elites and religious leaders about the concessions and foreign control resulted in some protests in 1906 The three main groups of the coalition seeking a constitution were the merchants the ulama and a small group of radical reformers They shared the goal of ending royal corruption and ending dominance by foreign powers These resulted in the Shah accepting a suggestion to create a Majles National Consultative Assembly in October 1906 by which the monarch s power was curtailed as he granted a constitution and parliament to the people King Mozaffar ad Din Shah signed the 1906 constitution shortly before his death The members of newly formed parliament stayed constantly in touch with Akhund Khurasani and whenever legislative bills were discussed he was telegraphed the details for a juristic opinion 338 In a letter dated June 3 1907 the parliament told Akhund about a group of anti constitutionalists who were trying to undermine legitimacy of democracy in the name of religious law The trio replied 338 339 The Cold War and the Usuli Islamist Clash in the Shi i World Edit See also Arab Cold War Sayyid Muhsin al Hakim Arabic سيد محسن الطباطبائي الحكيم 31 May 1889 2 June 1970 was a student of Akhund Khurasani Sayyid Qutb Arabic سيد إبراهيم حسين قطب 1906 1966 was an Egyptian Sunni Islamist author and a leading member of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood in the 1950s and 1960s Ayatullah Sayyid Mohammad Hadi al Milani Persian سيد محمد هادى حسينى ميلانی July 1 1895 August 7 1975 was a student of Ayatullah Na ini Ali Shariati Persian علی شریعتی مزینانی 1933 1977 During the cold war a massive translation of Muslim Brotherhood thinkers started in Iran The books of Sayyid Qutb and Abul A la Al Maududi were promoted through Muslim World League by Saudi patronage to confront communist propaganda in the Muslim world 340 The Shah regime in Iran tolerated the Muslim Brotherhood literature because not only it weakened the democratic Usulis but also being in western camp Shah understood that this was the main ideological response of West to penetrating Soviet communism in Muslim world 341 Soviet reports of the time indicate that Persian translations of this literature were smuggled to Afghanistan too where western block intended to use Islamists against the communists 342 Khaled Abou el Fadl thinks that Sayyid Qutb was inspired by the German fascist Carl Schmidt 343 He embodied a mixture of Wahhabism and Fascism and alongside Maududi theorized the ideology of Islamism The writings of Maududi and other Pakistani and Indian Islamists were translated into Persian and alongside the literature of Muslim Brotherhood shaped the ideology of Shi i Islamists 344 345 Maududi appreciated the power of modern state and its coercive potential that could be used for moral policing He saw Islam as a nation state that sought to mould its citizens and control every private and public expression of their lives like fascists and communist states 346 Iranian Shi i Islamists had close links with Maududi s Jamaat e Islami and after the 1963 riots in Qom the Jamaat s periodical Tarjuman ul Quran published a piece criticizing the Shah and supporting the Islamist currents in Iran 347 Sayyid Qutb s works were translated by Iranian Islamists into Persian and enjoyed remarkable popularity both before and after the revolution Prominent figures such as current Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and his brother Muhammad Khamenei Aḥmad Aram Hadi Khosroshahi etc translated Qutb s works into Persian 348 349 Hadi Khosroshahi was the first person to identify himself as Akhwani Shia 350 According to the National Library and Archives of Iran 19 works of Sayyid Qutb and 17 works of his brother Muhammad Qutb were translated to Persian and widely circulated in 1960 s 351 Reflecting on this import of ideas Ali Khamenei said The newly emerged Islamic movement had a pressing need for codified ideological foundations Most writings on Islam at the time lacked any direct discussions of the ongoing struggles of the Muslim people Few individuals who fought in the fiercest skirmishes of that battlefield made up their minds to compensate for this deficiency This text was translated with this goal in mind 352 In 1984 the Iranian authorities honoured Sayyid Qutb by issuing a postage stamp which showed him behind bars during his trial 353 But Ayatullah Hadi Milani the influential Usuli Marja in Mashhad during the 1970s had issued a fatwa prohibiting his followers from reading Ali Shariati s books and Islamist literature produced by young clerics This fatwa was followed by similar fatwas from Ayatullah Mar ashi Najafi Ayatullah Muhammad Rouhani Ayatullah Hasan Qomi and others The Islamist Ayatullah Khomeini refused to comment 354 Ali Shariati a bitter critic of traditional Usuli clergy was also greatly influenced by anti democratic Islamist ideas of Muslim Brotherhood thinkers in Egypt and he tried to meet Muhammad Qutb while visiting Saudi Arabia in 1969 355 Shariati criticized Ayatullah Hadi al Milani and other Usuli Marja s for not being revolutionary 356 A chain smoker Shariati died of a heart attack while in self imposed exile in Southampton on June 18 1977 357 However in one of his first books Kashf al Asrar the Islamist jurist Ruhollah Khomeini had argued that Government can only be legitimate when it accepts the rule of God and the rule of God means the implementation of the Sharia All laws that are contrary to the Sharia must be dropped because only the law of God will stay valid and immutable in the face of changing times 358 Meanwhile in Iraq the Sunni dynasty of Hashemites founded by the British colonialism in 1921 fell after a successful military coup in 1958 led by the pro soviet General Abd al Karim Qasim The religious learning centers came under immense pressure from the communist propaganda and government s attempts to curb religion as an obstacle to modernity and progress Usuli Marja Ayatollah Mohsin al Hakim issued fatwa against communism 359 A young Islamist cleric Muhammad Baqir al Sadr started to produce Islamist literature and wrote books like Our Philosophy and Our Economy and with some colleagues established the Islamic Dawa Party with similar goals to that of Muslim Brotherhood but left it after two years to focus on writing Ayatullah Mohsin al Hakim disapproved of his activities and ideas 360 The Islamist Revolution Edit See also Guardianship of the Islamic Jurist Sayyid Abul Qasim al Khoei Persian سید ابوالقاسم خویی 1992 1899 was a student of Ayatullah Na ini Ruhollah Khomeini Persian سید روح الله خمینی anti secularist leader of Islamic Revolution of Iran was a student of a mystic Sheikh Muhammad Ali Shah Abadi After his arrest in Iran following the 1963 riots leading Ayatullahs had issued a statement that Ayatullah Khomeini was a legitimate Marja too which saved his life and he was exiled 361 While in exile in Iraq in the holy city of Najaf Khomeini took advantage of the Iraq Iran conflict and launched a campaign against the Pahlavi regime in Iran Saddam Hussein gave him access to the Persian broadcast of Radio Baghdad to address Iranians and made it easier for him to receive visitors 362 He gave a series of 19 lectures to a group of his students from January 21 to February 8 1970 on Islamic Government and elevated Naraqi s idea of Jurist s absolute authority over imitator s personal life to all aspects of social life Notes of the lectures were soon made into a book that appeared under three different titles The Islamic Government Authority of the Jurist and A Letter from Imam Musavi Kashef al Gita 363 to deceive Iranian censors Khomeini The small book fewer than 150 pages was smuggled into Iran and widely distributed to Khomeini supporters before the revolution 364 The response from high level Shi a clerics to his idea of absolute guardianship of jurist was negative Grand Ayatollah Abul Qassim Khoei the leading Shia ayatollah at the time the book was published rejected Khomeini s argument on the grounds that the authority of jurist is limited to the guardianship of orphans and social welfare and could not be extended to the political sphere 365 Al Khoei elaborates on the role of a well qualified Shia Jurist in the age of occultation of the Infallible Imam which has been traditionally endorsed by the Usuli Shia scholars as follows Syed Abulhassan Shamsabadi was killed by Islamists in 1976 Murtaza Mutahhari Persian مرتضی مطهری 31 January 1919 1 May 1979 was a moderate Islamist He believed that a jurist only had a supervisory role and was not supposed to govern 366 Ayatullah Khoei showed great flexibility and tolerance for example he considered non Muslims as equal citizens of the nation state stopped the harsh punishments like stoning and favored the use of holy books other than Quran for oaths taken from non Muslims 367 In Isfahan Ayatullah Khoei s representative Syed Abul Hasan Shamsabadi gave sermons criticizing the Islamist interpretation of Shi i theology he was abducted and killed by the Islamist underground group called Target Killers Persian هدفی ها headed by Mehdi Hashmi 368 162 166 369 At Qom the major Marja Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari was at odds with Khomeini s interpretation of the concept of the Leadership of Jurists Wilayat al faqih Shariatmadari strongly believed that no system of government can be coerced upon a people no matter how morally correct it may be Instead people need to be able to freely elect a government 370 Before the Islamist revolution of 1979 Shariatmadari wanted a return to the system of constitutional monarchy that was enacted in the Iranian Constitution of 1906 371 He encouraged peaceful demonstrations to avoid bloodshed 372 Sayyid Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari Persian سید محمد کاظم شریعتمداری 5 January 1906 3 April 1986 died under house arrest Ruhollah Khomeini in Tehran with Ahmad Khomeini and Mohammad Ali Rajai On 6 January 1978 an article appeared in the daily Ettela at newspaper insulting Ayatullah Khomeini Frustrated youth in Qom took to the streets six were killed On 40th day of deaths in Qom Tabriz saw uprising and death The chain reaction started and led to uprisings in all cities Seizing the moment Khomeini gave an interview to the French newspaper Le Monde and demanded that the regime should be overthrown He started giving interviews to western media in which he appeared as a changed man spoke of a progressive islam and did not mention the idea of guardianship of the jurist On 10th and 11 December 1978 the days of Tasu a and Ashura millions marched on the streets of Tehran chanting Death to Shah On 16 January 1979 Shah fled the country 373 After the success of the 1979 Islamic Revolution the major Iranian Usuli Marja Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari criticized Khomeini s system of government as not being compatible with Islam or representing the will of the Iranian people He severely criticized the way in which a referendum was conducted to establish Khomeini s system of government In response Khomeini put him under house arrest and imprison his family members This resulted in mass protests in Tabriz which were quashed toward the end of January 1980 when under the orders of Khomeini tanks and the army moved into the city 374 Response EditCriticism Edit Main article Criticism of Islamism Islamism or elements of Islamism have been criticized on numerous grounds including repression of free expression and individual rights rigidity hypocrisy anti semitism 375 misinterpreting the Quran and Sunnah lack of true understanding of and innovations to Islam bid ah notwithstanding proclaimed opposition to any such innovation by Islamists Counter response Edit The U S government has engaged in efforts to counter militant Islamism Jihadism since 2001 These efforts were centred in the U S around public diplomacy programmes conducted by the State Department There have been calls to create an independent agency in the U S with a specific mission of undermining Jihadism Christian Whiton an official in the George W Bush administration called for a new agency focused on the nonviolent practice of political warfare aimed at undermining the ideology 376 U S Defense Secretary Robert Gates called for establishing something similar to the defunct U S Information Agency which was charged with undermining the communist ideology during the Cold War 377 Parties and organizations EditMain category Islamist groups For a more comprehensive list see List of Islamic 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