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Political Islam: Theory

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March, Andrew F.·2015·Annual Review of Political Science

Abstract

This essay focuses on questions that pertain to the ideological, normative, symbolic, and epochal aspects of political Islam. Political theorists, historians, sociologists, and anthropologists have disagreed on whether political Islam is an exclusively modern political phenomenon or is indebted to long-standing Islamic religious commitments. More specifically, they have also disagreed on whether the shape and ambitions of political Islam are entirely determined by the powers and institutions of the modern, bureaucratic state, particularly its secular desire to control, regulate, and reshape religion. These interpretive debates have often sat uneasily with ongoing normative debates about what kind of secularism democracy requires and whether democracy has priority over liberal rights and freedoms.

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Crossref · 10.1146/annurev-polisci-082112-141250

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    Islam regards the community of believers (the umma) as the most important political community.

    “But because Islam regards the community of believers (the umma) as the most important political community, transnationalism and cosmopolitanism are unavoidable in Islamist activism.”
  • The paper relies on this without support.

    Islamism is almost everywhere operating within the structures of modern secular states.

    “Islamism is almost everywhere operating within the structures of modern secular states.”
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    The centralized, bureaucratic, legislating, sovereign state was imposed on Muslim societies throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, sometimes by local modernizing elites and sometimes by European colonial powers.

    “The centralized, bureaucratic, legislating, sovereign state was imposed on Muslim societies throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, sometimes by local modernizing elites and sometimes by European colonial powers.”
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    Even where traditional religious law was still enforced in matters of family and personal status in shari 'a courts, those courts received their authorization from state authorities and usually applied newly codified (and simplified) versions of traditional Islamic law.

    “Even where traditional religious law was still enforced in matters of family and personal status in shari 'a courts, those courts received their authorization from state authorities and usually applied newly codified (and simplified) versions of traditional Islamic law.”
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    Many Muslims think that in all times and places they must try to order their lives and societies in accordance with the most important purposes and priorities of Islam, recognizing historical changes and engaging dialectically with them.

    “Nevertheless, many Muslims think that in all times and places they must try to order their lives and societies in accordance with the most important purposes and priorities of Islam, recognizing historical changes and engaging dialectically with them.”
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    Both classical theory and practice distinguished between two realms: governance (siyasa) and religious law (fiqh).

    “Both classical theory and practice distinguished between two realms: governance (siyasa) and religious law ( fiqh).”
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    The military coup of July 3, 2013, sealed by the May 2014 presidential election, has put an end to any form of open political participation on the part of Islamists (or non-Islamists) in Egypt.

    “But what is certain is that the military coup of July 3, 2013, sealed by the May 2014 presidential election, has put an end to any form of open political participation on the part of Islamists (or non-Islamists) in that country.”
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Authors
March, A. F.
Affiliations
Yale University (US)
Corresponding author
March, Andrew F.
Venue
Annual Review of Political Science
Published
2015-05-11
Volume
18
Issue
1
Pages
103-123
ISSN
  • 1094-2939 (ISSN-L)
  • 1545-1577
OpenAlex
W2154224507
Cited by
78
References
182
Citations by year
2026: 3 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 8 · 2023: 11 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 18 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 7 · 2017: 6 · 2016: 6 · 2015: 2
FWCI
15.02
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
Annual Review of Political Science (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender
  • Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Islamic Studies and History
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Religion and Society Interactions
Keywords
political Islam, secularism, democracy, modernity, church-state relations, secular state, liberal rights, religion and politics, normative theory

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