Tag: Islamism

Free Download Margrit Pernau Mushirul Hasan, "Regionalizing Pan-Islamism: Documents on the Khilafat Movement"
English | 2005 | pages: 482 | ISBN: 8173045933 | PDF | 92,5 mb
Critical introduction on the Muslim political movement, India, with many documents and biographical notes. also extensive index.

Free Download Masdar Hilmy, "Islamism and Democracy in Indonesia: Piety and Pragmatism"
English | 2010 | pages: 332 | ISBN: 9812309713 | PDF | 8,5 mb
Most scholarly works conducted within the period of post-New Order Indonesia have underlined the fact that Indonesian Islamists reject the notion of democracy; no adequate explanation nonetheless has been attempted thus far as to how and to what extent democracy is being rejected. This book is dedicated to filling the gap by examining the complex reality behind the Islamists’ rejection of democracy. It focuses its analysis on two streams of Islamism: the two Islamist groups that seek "extra-parliamentary" means to achieve their goals, that is, MMI and HTI, and the PKS Islamists who choose the existing political party system as a means of their power struggle. As this book has demonstrated, there are times when the two streams of Islamism share a common platform of understanding and interpretation as well as an intersection where they are in conflict with one another. The interplay between contested meanings over particular theological matters on normative grounds and power contests among the Islamists proves to be critical in shaping this complexity.

Free Download Bernhard Platzdasch, "Islamism in Indonesia: Politics in the Emerging Democracy"
English | 2009 | ISBN: 9814279080, 9814279099 | PDF | pages: 450 | 7.9 mb
The fall of President Soeharto in May 1998 and the introduction of multi-party democracy by President BJ Habibie have unleashed religious parties (both Islamic and Christian) in Indonesian politics. This study shows that the Islamist agenda of the Islamist parties is overshadowed by their political pragmatism. This book is a must-read account on the rise and failure of the Islamist struggle in Indonesia’s emerging democracy. Platzdasch’s work is without a doubt a significant and timely contribution to a better understanding of Islamic politics in contemporary Indonesia. – Professor Azyumardi Azra, Professor of History & Director, Graduate School, Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University, Jakarta, Indonesia.