Islamism and Totalitarianism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19477448 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jeffrey M Bale (Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 73-96 |
| Publication date | 2009-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Totalitarian Movements & Political Religions (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1469-0764 • E-ISSN: 1743-9647 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14690760903371313 |
| OpenAlex | W4240305831 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
Ever since the 1979 Iranian Revolution, and even more so since the spectacular attacks by Qaʿidat al‐Jihad against the U.S. on 9/11, there has been an ever‐growing flood of academic and journalistic publications devoted to radical Islam. Unfortunately, much of that literature has embodied problematic conceptual perspectives that can best be characterized as ‘Islam bashing’, ‘Islam apologism’, or – worst of all – ‘Islamist apologism’. The purpose of this article is to identify the key problems with all of those perspectives, and especially to challenge the widespread view that Islamism can assume genuinely ‘moderate’, ‘democratic’, or ‘liberationist’ forms. On the contrary, the argument herein is that Islamism is an intrinsically radical and anti‐democratic extreme right‐wing political ideology, one that is not only based upon an unusually strict, puritanical interpretation of central tenets of the Islamic faith but is totalitarian in its very essence. Hence Islamist movements should not be seen as being comparable to Western movements like Christian Democracy, but rather as being similar in certain respects to Western totalitarian movements like Marxism‐Leninism and fascism
Argument (complex analysis) · Democracy · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Faith · Ideology · Interpretation (philosophy) · Islam · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Theology · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions
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Extreme Britain
The Dilemma Between Religious Doctrine and Political Pragmatism
Contemporary terrorism and the true believer
The shifting frames of the Council of Europe
Exposing and exploiting weaknesses in the merger of Al-Qaeda and Al-Shabaab
Political Islam as an Incomplete and Contested Category
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,54 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2026 (14) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |