Islamists and the Politics of the Arab Uprisings: Governance, Pluralisation and Contention
- Submitting institution
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The University of Leeds
- Unit of assessment
- 26 - Modern Languages and Linguistics
- Output identifier
- UOA26-2098
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- ISBN
- 9781474419253
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- June
- Year of publication
- 2018
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- Supplementary information
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- 25 - Area Studies
- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This output consists of the following elements: 21 chapters of which Hendrik Kraetzschmar co-authored the introduction ‘Political Islam and the Arab uprisings in comparative perspective’ (pp. 1-16), Chapter 7 ‘A critique from within: the Islamic left in Turkey and the AKP’s neo-liberal economics’ (pp. 107-126), Chapter 11 ‘Kuwait’s Islamist proto-parties and the Arab uprisings: between opposition, pragmatism and the pursuit of cross-ideological cooperation’ (pp. 182-204), and Chapter 13 ‘Political parties and secular–Islamist polarisation in post-Mubarak Egypt’ (pp. 221-242). As one of two editors, Hendrik Kraetzschmar was also involved in the design and editing of the volume as a whole. Hendrik Kraetzschmar’ s contribution to all these is 50%. The book is the published culmination of a Gerda Henkel funded research project on ‘From over-estimation to under-estimation: the trajectory of political Islam in five MENA countries’ to which Hendrik Kraetzschmar contributed as one of the Co-Is. The book makes a distinctive and timely contribution to our understanding of the trajectories of political Islam in the aftermath of the 2011-2013 Arab uprisings, debating key areas of contention and change. These include the transformation of Islamist political parties from parties of the opposition to parties of power and the challenges of political and economic governance that this brings with it, the pluralisation of domestic Islamist actors and the growth of intra-Islamist competition and conflict, the concomitant rise in levels of societal polarisation along ‘secular–Islamist’ lines in many Arab states and its impact on both Islamist and ‘secular’ domestic players; as well as the resurgence of sectarian discourse and conflict in the region, particularly between adherents of Sunni and Shi‘a Islam.
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- Non-English
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