Islamism

Empire that initiated the creation of pan-Islamism. Due to the Europeans intervening and aiding the Christians in rebelling against the Ottoman Empire, the reign of Abdulhamid II over the Ottoman state persuaded him to extend his rule of Muslims in southeast Asia and other areas. The interesting argument that Aydin makes is that Abdulhamid’s pan-Islamic movement was aimed to strengthen and save the Empire, not to weaken it. Abdulhamid’s idea of pan-Islamism was not meant to attack the European…

One of the most outstanding figures of the Islamic history in the nineteenth century was Jamal ad-Di Afghani (1839-1897) who was born in Iran. Afghani was a well-traveled political activist who became the leading spokesperson for Pan-Islamism, a political movement that fought against the incursion of the Europeans by uniting the Muslims around the world under one Islamic state. His journeys to the different countries he has been had significant influences on how his life was shaped. The trends…

The trend to unveil had begun in Egypt in the early 20th century, set in motion by the writer Qasim Amin. Amin had argued that "gradual and careful change in the status of women," including women's casting off their veils, was now an essential step in the advancement of Muslim societies and "not contrary to the principles of Islam." Although Amin's ideas had been met with great resistance, how they gradually gained acceptance and spread among the "more advanced Arab countries," first in Egypt…

a. Help students understand the role ideology has played and continues to play in shaping world events: This course goal was accomplished for me when we did the topic of Osama bin Laden and his hatred for the United States. Because the United States is a liberal, capitalist society where everyone has the freedom to do what they want, Osama bin Laden hated that. He felt as if a country should have control over every aspect of its citizens’ lives. His hatred for American was carried out in a…

In reality, the experiences of Gülen and the AKP represent the secret desires of Muslim people in Turkey. That is the statement of the propensity, the embodiment of its. 4. The Triumph of Political Islam or “Kemalo-Islamism” Looking from the outside, there is can be seen a dramatic rising of Islamists movements in Turkey, especially after the newly rising tensions. In fact, the same scenery can be seen from the inside if the observer does not know anything about the…

Man in this Village is a Liar is an honest and confronting memoir about the reality of the conflicts and war in the Middle East. “It’s not necessarily focused on combat zones exclusively, it’s also about the war for ideas, the war for democracy for Islamism,” Stack said in a 2010 C-SPAN interview. “There are a lot of themes woven into it.” Stack opens the novel with her experiences with sexual assault from Mohammed Zaman, who was her best source until this occurred. She also goes on to explain…

“Why border lines drawn with a ruler in WW1 still rock the Middle East” was written in 2013 by Tarek Osman of BBC news. This article relates to the readers exactly why the borders are where they are in the Middle East, and how it is affecting them. To start off, the lines were drawn by two men, Sykes who is from Britain and Picot who is from France. These men apparently had immense knowledge of the Middle East, yet the lines that they drew did not attribute to that. Both countries, Britain and…

Banners bore the poet Vladimir Mayakovsky's proclamation "Lenin lived, Lenin lives, Lenin will live forever!" There might be challenges to the globalized liberal order, but they would come from Islamism or China's state capitalism, no longer a discredited Marxism. China and Russia both deploy symbols of their Communist heritage to strengthen an anti-liberal nationalism; in the West, confidence in free-market capitalism has not recovered from the financial crash of 2008, and new forces of the…

The first article that I read in regard to the question on whether radical Islam is or is not an ideology was Liberal Islam: Prospects and Challenges by Charles Kurzman. In the first paragraph Kurzman talks about Muslims firmly believing in “Liberal Islam” which refers to interpretations of Islam that are concerning issues such as democracy, separating religion from political involvement, women’s rights, freedom of thought, and promoting human progress. Kurzman feels that changes to religion for…

Arab countries, for example, struggled to unify because of tensions between the conservative, pro-monarchy forces and revolutionary ones (Goff et al. 386). Meanwhile, Arab countries felt by increasingly threatened by Iran's push to spread radical Islamism, eventually causing the Iran-Iraq war. The war significantly changed political life in both countries, as they allied with superpowers for resources and chose new leaders to conduct the war.…