At least since the Islamic revolution of 1979 in Iran, political Islam or Islamism has been the focus of attention among scholars, policymakers, and the general public. Much has been said about Islamism as a political and moral/ethical trend, but scant attention is paid to its ongoing development. There is now a growing acknowledgment within the scholarly and policy communities that Islamism is in the throes of transformation, but little is known about the nature and direction of these changes. The essays of Post-Islamism bring together young and established scholars and activists from different parts of the Muslim World and the West to discuss their research on the changing discourses and practices of Islamist movements and Islamic states largely in the Muslim majority countries. The changes in these movements can be termed 'post-Islamism,' defined both as a condition and a project characterized by the fusion of religiosity and rights, faith and freedom, Islam and liberty. Post-Islamism emphasizes rights rather than merely obligation, plurality instead of singular authoritative voice, historicity rather than fixed scriptures, and the future instead of the past.
Preface ; Contributors ; Part One: Introduction ; Chapter One: Post-Islamism at Large - Asef Bayat ; Part Two: Critique From Within ; Chapter Two: The Making of Post-Islamist Iran - Asef Bayat ; Chapter Three: The AKP and Turkey's Post-Islamist Turn - Ihsan Dagi ; Chapter Four: Islam and the Retrenchment of the Secular Turkish State - Cihan Tugal ; Chapter Five: Moroccan Post-Islamism: Emerging Trend or Chimera? - Sami Zemni ; Chapter Six: Post-Islamist Politics in Indonesia - Noorhaidi Hasan ; Part Three: Change in Ambivalence ; Chapter Seven: Egypt's Islamism and its Post-Islamist Revolution - Asef Bayat ; Chapter Eight: Hizbullah's Infitah: A Post-Islamist Turn? - Joseph Alagha ; Part Four: Critique From Without ; Chapter Nine: Post-Islamist Strands in Pakistan: Islamist Spin-Offs and Their Contradictory Trajectories - Humeira Iqtidar ; Chapter Ten: Saudi Arabia and the Limits of Post-Islamism - Stephane Lacroix ; Part Five: Post-Islamism Always ; Chapter Eleven: Islamism in Sudan: Before, After, in Between - Abdelwahab El-Affendi ; Chapter Twelve: Syria's Un-usual "Islamic Trend": Political Reformists, the Ulama, and Democracy - Thomas Pierret ; Index
