The Future of Political Islam: Behavior and Ideology

Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel

Session Description

Islamist parties today face very specific geopolitical circumstances. In some countries where Islamists formerly competed in (and won) elections, renewed state repression has completely closed off electoral politics. In other countries, victorious Islamist parties have transformed into post-ideological authoritarians. In others, victorious Islamist parties have, through their cooperation with secular parties, transformed ideologically far beyond the traditional scope of Islamist ideology. This panel explores the present crisis of political Islam from both empirical and ideological perspectives.

Sub Unit

• Division 57: Middle East and North Africa Politics

Individual Presentations

• Islam, Identity, and Elections - Tarek E. Masoud, Harvard University; Amaney Jamal, Princeton University

• The Ideological Transformation of the Da'wa Party - Marsin Rahim Alshamary, Harvard Kennedy School

• Political Opening & Factional Politics: A Typology of Islamist Party Structures - A.Kadir Yildirim, Rice University

• The Three Faces of the Muslim Brotherhood and the Future of Political Islam - Dalia Fikry Fahmy, Long Island University, Brooklyn

Chair

• Andrew F. March University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Discussant

• Matt J. Buehler University of Tennessee