Islamist-Islamism
Islamism (and the associated Islamist) are terms that are used very widely in contemporary discourse.
History of usage
Four years later Martin Kramer - both student and friend of Lewis - introduced the term 'Political Islam':
- Terminology for the phenomena characterized as Political Islam varies among scholars. The first scholar to introduce the term Political Islam was Martin Kramer in 1980. Some scholars use the term Islamism for the same set of phenomena, or use the two terms interchangeably. Dekmejian 1980 was among the first to place the politicization of Islam in the context of the failures of secular governments, although he uses the terms Islamism and fundamentalism (rather than Political Islam) interchangeably. Dekmejian 1995, still using fundamentalism and Islamism, is an influential treatment of Political Islam as increasingly mainstream and moderate. Some scholars, using descriptive terms such as conservative, progressive, militant, radical, or jihadist, distinguish among ideological strains of Political Islam.[1]
Kramer's book was published by Sage but in a series called the 'Washington Papers'. This was edited by Walter Laqueur the historian, journalist and 'terror expert' who was at the time attached to the Georgetown University think tank the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Resources
- Andreas Krieg Laying the ‘Islamist’ bogeyman to rest Lobelog, October 10, 2019
- Lewis, Bernard. “The Return of Islam.” Commentary 61, no. 1 (1976): 39–49.
- Salman Sayyid, (2015). A fundamental fear: Eurocentrism and the emergence of Islamism. Zed Books Ltd.
- Albert Scardino 1-0 in the propaganda war The guardian, 4 February 2005.
- Blake Smith, Why We Say ‘Islamism’ and Why We Should Stop, Quillette. 11 February 2018
Notes
- ↑ John O. Voll, Tamara Sonn Political Islam Oxford Bibliographies, LAST REVIEWED: 29 SEPTEMBER 2014, LAST MODIFIED: 14 DECEMBER 2009 DOI: 10.1093/OBO/9780195390155-0063.
