What shapes the dynamics of the revitalization of political participation after the collapse of a long-term authoritarian regime? While much attention has been paid to Communist successor parties in the post-Soviet space, a surprising lack of attention has been given to oppositi…
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This thesis challenges the conventional wisdom that tends to conflate Arab foreign fighters with Islamist terrorists, and ‘martyrdom operations' with ‘suicide attacks.' Overlaps notwithstanding, it aims to draw distinctions between Arab foreign fighters engaged in defensive jiha…
Hizb ut Tahrir (HT) is a rapidly growing trans-national Islamic movement which aims to revive the classical Islamic Caliphate. Consequently, it has come under increasing international focus as a result of its rapid expansion beyond its traditional heartland of the Middle East in…
This dissertation is an examination of the UK's counter-terrorism policies and practices that have been adopted since the attacks of 9/11 in the United States. Using a theoretical framework of 'power' and 'hegemony' to guide the research, and an investigative research approach, …
According to conventional wisdom winning hearts and minds is one of the most important goals for defeating terrorism. However, despite repeated claims about U.S. efforts to build popular support as part of the war on terror during the first seven years after 9/11, a steady strea…
This study examines the construction of a new political order in post-revolutionary Iran through the prism of its revolutionary armed forces. It specifically explores the place of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) in this process, and focuses on its role in establish…
This study examines the recent rise of political Islam that challenges the secular state primarily in the context of social identity, and tries to determine the extent to which the movement is a reaction to perceived external threats, specified as the imposition of unwanted out-…
There has been an upsurge in the success and effectiveness of Political Islam in Turkish civil society since the 1970s. However, contrary to the arguments of modernization theorists and orientalists, this increasing effectiveness is not the result of "essential" features of Isla…
This dissertation is an attempt to study Turkey's national and secular identity in light of the challenges posed by Kurdish nationalism and political Islam. The underlying premise of my argument is that Kurdish nationalism and political Islam represent existential threats to Tur…
My dissertation examines US foreign policymakers' conceptions of political Islam in the broader Middle East as they created a military presence there from 1977-1988. I argue that this served as a way to re-assert American military involvement on a global scale after the Vietnam …
The military coup of 1980 in Turkey was followed by more than two decades of neoliberal transition, which included the introduction and rising influence of Islamic capital, as well as the systematic weakening of trade unions through both economic and political processes. In this…
This dissertation challenges a dominant trait in contemporary western thought that understands Islamist politics as holistic and antithetical to modernity and democracy; that presents Islamism as an expression of traditionalism in the modern world. I challenge this dominant west…
This thesis offers an in-depth analysis into the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions, two events that shocked the world. Two long-standing tyrants were deposed after just a few weeks of non-violent action. Two years later, both countries, now dominated by Islamists continue to exp…
This dissertation is a comparative ethnographic study of Islamic revival movements in Lyon, France, and Hyderabad, India. It introduces the importance of class and the state in shaping piety and its politicization. The project challenges the common conflation of piety and politi…
Using intuitionist moral psychology and a detailed anthropological investigation of the moral reasoning of Turkish "Islamist” voters, I argue for an urgent rethinking of the dynamics of political Islam and religious fundamentalism in general. Having explained a widespread conten…
This dissertation concentrates on the roles of Islamic business groups in creating opportunities to influence policy outcomes in countries with restricted political environments where secular regimes limited the space for Islamic groups to organize in both civil and political so…
The current decade has seen the rise of Islamist political movements winning electoral victories in Egypt, Morocco, and other countries in the Middle East. A key shift has occurred in the position of the Islamist movements on the question of pluralist democracy. Yet there are si…
This work addresses the folkloristic topic of identity through a conventional narrative history exploring Egypt's recent identity crisis in its historical development rather than its static mode in a specific time and space. This work, therefore, suggests a fresh look at the fun…
This dissertation is a historical research in the formation of the first Islamic State during the era of the Prophet Muh[dotbelow]ammad (ca. 622-32 CE). While many academic works have referred to it largely within either biographical (e.g. 'the life of Muh[dotbelow]ammad' and th…