Limits of Islamism - Jamaat-E-Islami in Contemporary India and Bangladesh

Informationen zum Autor Maidul Islam teaches in the Department of Political Science at Presidency University, Kolkata. As a Clarendon-Hector Pilling-Senior Hulme scholar at Brasenose College, he studied political theory for his doctoral studies in the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford. Klappentext This book focuses on Islamism as a political ideology by taking up the case study of Jamaat-e-Islami in contemporary India and Bangladesh. Zusammenfassung The book examines the dynamics from the formation of Islamist politics for the struggle for hegemony to failure to become a hegemonic force in Bangladesh. The contradiction between Islamic universalism/Islamist populism! on one hand! and a politics of Muslim particularism in India! on the other! is revealed in this study. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Islamism and ideology: philosophical issues and analytical categories; 2. Islamism in neoliberal India; 3. Ideological articulations of Jamaat-e-Islam Hind; 4. Islamism in a Muslim majority context: the case of Bangladesh; 5. The crisis of Islamist population of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami; 6. Islamism in contemporary India and Bangladesh: comparative overview of the politics of alternative.

Product details

• Authors: Maidul Islam, Maidul (Presidency University Islam, Islam Maidul
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.03.2015
• EAN: 9781107080263
• ISBN: 978-1-107-08026-3
• No. of pages: 340
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Bangladesh, India, Islamic Studies, Comparative Politics, Relating to Islamic / Muslim people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities