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What role does political Islam play in the genealogy of protests as an instrument to resist neo-liberalism and authoritarian rule? How can we account for the internal conflicts among Islamist players after the 2011/2012 Arab uprisings? How can we assess the performance of Islamist parties in power? What geopolitical reconfigurations have the uprisings created, and what opportunities have arisen for Islamists to claim a stronger political role in domestic and regional politics? These questions are addressed in this book, which looks at the dynamics in place during the aftermath of the Arab uprisings in a wide range of countries across the Middle East and North Africa.

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Author:   Hendrik Kraetzschmar (Associate Professor, University of Leeds) ,  Paola Rivetti (Lecturer, Dublin City University)
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:  

9781474419253

ISBN 10:   1474419259
Pages:   408
Publication Date:   13 June 2018
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Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 1. Political Islam and the Arab Uprisings Paola Rivetti and Hendrik Kraetzschmar Part I: Islamists and Issues of Political and Economic Governance 2. Participation not Domination: Morsi on an Impossible Mission? Mariz Tadros 3. Governing after Protests. The Case for Political Participation in Post-2009 Iran Paola Rivetti and Alam Saleh 4. The Group that wanted to be a State: The ‘Rebel Governance’ of the Islamic State Truls H. Tønnessen 5. Islamic and Islamist Women Activists in Qatar Post-Arab uprisings: Implications for the Study of Refusal and Citizenship Wanda Krause and Melissa Finn 6. Is Islamism Accommodating Neo-liberalism? The Case of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood Angela Joya 7. A Critique from Within: The Islamic Left in Turkey and the AK Party’s Neo-Liberal Economics Nazlı Çağın Bilgili and Hendrik Kraetzschmar Part II: Islamist and Secular Party Politics 8. Rise and Endurance: Moderate Islamists and Electoral Politics in the Aftermath of the ‘Moroccan Spring’ Mohammed Masbah 9. Does Participation Lead to Moderation? Understanding Changes in Egyptian Islamist Parties post-Arab Spring Barbara Zollner 10. Islamist Political Societies in Bahrain: Collateral Victims of the 2011 Popular Uprising Marc Valeri 11. Kuwait’s Islamist Proto-parties and the Arab Uprisings: Between Opposition, Pragmatism and the Pursuit of Cross-Ideological Cooperation Luciano Zaccara, Courtney Freer and Hendrik Kraetzschmar 12. Secular Forms of Politicised Islam in Tunisia: The Constitutional Democratic Rally and Nida’ Tunis Anne Wolf 13. Political Parties and Secular-Islamist Polarisation in Post-Mubarak Egypt Hendrik Kraetzschmar and Alam Saleh Part III: Intra-Islamist Pluralisation and Contention 14. The Complexity of Tunisian Islamism: Conflicts and Rivalries over the Role of Religion in Politics Francesco Cavatorta 15. The Reconfiguration of the Egyptian Islamist Social Movement Family after Two Political Transitions Jerôme Drevon 16. Iraq’s Shi‘a Islamists after the Uprisings: The Impact of Intra-sectarian Tensions and Relations with Iran Ibrahim al-Marashi 17. The Impact of Islamist Trajectories on the International Relations of the Post-2011 Middle East Katerina Dalacoura Part IV: The Sunni-Shi’a Divide 18. Islamism in Yemen: From Ansar Allah to Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula Vincent Durac 19: Sectarianism and Civil Conflict in Syria: Reconfigurations of a Reluctant Issue Laura Ruiz de Elvira Carrascal and Souhail Belhadj 20. Out of the Ashes: The Rise of an anti-Sectarian Discourse in post-2011 Iraq Chérine Chams El-Dine Part V Conclusion 21. Conclusion: New Directions in the Study of Islamist Politics Jillian Schwedler List of Acronyms Index Editors The Contributors

Reviews

Extremely rich in terms of empirical material...this book warrants attention from anyone interested in understanding the impact of the 2011 uprisings on political Islam across the region, as well as novel theoretical approaches to grasp with its changes. -- Erika Biagini, Dublin City University, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies

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Hendrik Kraetzschmar is an Associate Professor in the Comparative Politics of the Middle East and North Africa at the University of Leeds. He is editor of democracy and Violence: Global Debates and Local Challenges (2010) and The Dynamics of Opposition Co-Operation in the Arab World (2013). Paola Rivetti is a Lecturer in the Politics of the Middle East and International Relations at Dublin City University. She is co-editor of Continuity and Change Before and After the Arab Uprisings: Morocco, Tunisia and Egypt (2015).

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