Monarchs, Mullas, and Marshals

Islamic Regimes

Dados Bibliográficos

ID9748673
AutoresIbrahim A Karawan (autor correspondente)
Ano1992
Volume524
Fascículo1
Páginas103-119
Data de publicação1992-11-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0002-7162 • E-ISSN: 1552-3349
EditoraSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0002716292524001009
OpenAlexW2021733705
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas10
Referências citadas17

This article examines three regime types that assert that they represent “Islam in power.” They are the conservative dynastic regime of Saudi Arabia, the populist clerical regime of Iran, and the authoritarian military regimes of the Sudan and Pakistan. These regimes articulate different interpretations of Islam that reflect the interests and ideology of those who control the state machinery, the influence of society's historical legacy, and specific characteristics of the immediate situational setting. The Islamic legitimization of all three types has been contested on religiopolitical grounds by domestic rivals for power and external rivals for leadership in the Muslim world. The most effective challenges to regime legitimacy have been manifested in the Islamized military regimes. The predicament of “the Islam of the marshals” is due to several factors: their lack of the political capital available in the Saudi type of “the Islam of wealth,” or the legitimacy generated by revolutionary change under charismatic leadership known in the Iranian type of “the Islam of revolution,” and their antipolitical character, manifested in their distrust of political movements that supported their Islamization programs and whose leaders aspired to play the roles of its theoreticians and organizers

Authoritarianism · Democracy · Distrust · Ideology · Islam · Islamization · Legitimacy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · State (computer science · History · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence