Islamic Activism: A Social Movement Theory Approach

✍ Scribed by Quintan Wiktorowicz

• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 329
• Series: Indiana Series in Middle East Studies
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

''The book's brilliant thesis is that the Western authors need a social movement theory-paradigm to reveal the dynamics of the ongoing political and cultural movements in the Muslim world.... the book is a very good contribution to Islamism.'' -- M. A. Khan, Emory University, Choice, July 2004

✦ Table of Contents

Foreword......Page 10
Introduction: Islamic Activism andSocial Movement Theory......Page 14
One: From Marginalization to Massacres:A Political Process Explanation of GIAViolence in Algeria......Page 50
Two: Violence as Contention in theEgyptian Islamic Movement......Page 74
Three: Repertoires of Contention inContemporary Bahrain......Page 102
Four: Hamas as Social Movement......Page 125
Five: The Networked World of IslamistSocial Movements......Page 156
Six: Islamist Women in Yemen:Informal Nodes of Activism......Page 177
Seven: Collective Action with andwithout Islam: Mobilizing the Bazaarin Iran......Page 198
Eight: The Islah Party in Yemen: Political Opportunities and Coalition Building in a Transitional Polity......Page 218
Nine: Interests, Ideas, and IslamistOutreach in Egypt......Page 244
Ten: Making Conversation Permissible:Islamism and Reform in Saudi Arabia......Page 263
Eleven: Opportunity Spaces, Identity,and Islamic Meaning in Turkey270......Page 283
Conclusion: Social Movement Theoryand Islamic Studies......Page 302
Contributors......Page 318
Index......Page 320