Sadeghi Givi, F;
(2021)
Post-Islamism: From Making Islam Democratic to the Politics of Myth.
Manchester Journal of Transnational Islamic Law and Practice
, 17
(1)
pp. 3-18.
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Abstract
Post-Islamism has been suggested as an intellectual and political response by which Islam and democracy become compatible. However, post-Islamism is not a homogenous discourse and involves at least democratic and social democratic inclinations. For democratic post-Islamism, freedom, democracy, and human rights were master signifiers, whereas, for social-democratic post-Islamism and anticapitalist Muslims, justice is pivot of the intellectual constellation and religious criticism. Reviewing the main ideas and criticisms of the most recent post-Islamist intellectual discourses, this article investigates the ability of post-Islamism in addressing authoritarianism, inequality, and social injustice. Exploring the significance of the politics of myth for the meaningful intellectual and political endeavours, this article investigates the theological turn of the anti-capitalist Muslims and its significance for post-Islamism particularly in suggesting new understandings of the Qur’an. The article concludes that if Islamism is not seen primarily as a state ideology but as politics of myth, then post-Islamism requires to capture popular imagination.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Post-Islamism: From Making Islam Democratic to the Politics of Myth |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | https://www.electronicpublications.org/catalogue/2... |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Islamism; Post-Islamism; Neo-Liberalisation; Politics of Myth |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > UCL Institute for Global Prosperity |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10137050 |
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