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Over the past twenty years, the painstakingly methodical, graduated, nuanced and non-violent strategy of political Islamists has been eclipsed by the emergence of jihadists affiliated to the margins of the Salafi tradition.
Mahan Abedin is a research journalist specialising in Islamic affairs.
Few topics are as interesting and contentious as the role, status and future of Muslim communities in the West, specifically Western Europe, North America and Australia. Sadek Hamid’s Sufis, Salafis and Islamists: The Contested Ground of British Islamic Activism, marks a sober, rigorous and authoritative contribution the debate.
Mahan Abedin is a research journalist specialising in Islamic affairs.
After the terrorist attack on Bardo complex on 18th March 2015 and plans to introduce new anti-terrorist legislation, many questions are asked regarding threats to Tunisian democracy. In this context, the following interview with Rashid Ghannouchi, leader of Ennahdha, conducted on 12th December 2014 by Konrad Pedziwiatr, is especially relevant.
This text was produced as part of the project “Islamism and Pluralism: The Islamist Movements in Egypt and Tunisia after the Arab Spring” financed by the National Science Centre (Poland); Decision no. DEC-2011/03/D/HS5/01570/1.
On Saturday 16 February Rashid Al-Ghannouchi addressed a crowd of tens of thousands in Tunis. Mahan Abedin witnessed the rally and subsequently met and interviewed Rashid Al-Ghannouchi.
Mahan Abedin is an academic and journalist specialising in Islamic affairs.
How Islamists and their fellow activists are adjusting to national and global changes. And how we can understand these transformations. Those are the issues explored in a new book, “Whatever Happened to the Islamists”.
Amel Boubekeur and Olivier Roy (eds.), Whatever Happened to the Islamists? Salafis, Heavy Metal Muslims and the Lure of Consumerist Islam, London / New York, Hurst / Columbia University Press, 2012, 224 p.
Six months after the start of the so-called Arab Spring which has witnessed revolutions, uprisings and even a full-fledged Civil War in no less than six Arab countries, there is no sign yet that the spirit of protest and revolt is about to reach the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Mahan Abedin is an academic and journalist specialising in Islamic affairs.
On Sunday 30 January Rashid Al-Ghannouchi, the 69 year old leader of the Tunisian Islamic movement, returned home after a long exile in London. The international media has interpreted Al-Ghannouchi’s return as the most potent symbol yet of the dramatic changes that have taken place in Tunisia in recent weeks.
Mahan Abedin is an academic and journalist specialising in Islamic affairs.
“The Jammat-e-Islami Hind (JIH) is an Islamic organization that is trying to promote, propagate and strengthen Islam. Our primary role in India is to protect and strengthen the Muslim community in addition to reaching out to non-Muslims.” – A member of the leadership of the JIH answers the questions of Mahan Abedin.
Mahan Abedin is a research fellow at the New Delhi-based Institute for Defence Studies and Analysis. Previously he has worked with numerous think tanks, including the Washington-based Jamestown Foundation and the London-based Centre for the Study of Terrorism. He has also been active in journalism, having worked for the Beirut-based Daily Star and most recently the Irbil-based AK News Agency where he was chief editor of the Persian and English sections. Born in Iran, but raised and educated in the United Kingdom, Abedin is a frequent traveller to the Islamic Republic where he is a consultant to independent media.
On 8 April 2007, members of the Wahhabi-oriented Ahl al-Sunnah wal-Jama’ah and members of the Tijaniyyah Sufi order clashed at Ejura, in the Ashanti region of Ghana, over doctrinal differences.
This article was originally published in Islam in Africa Newsletter,
Volume 2 (2007), Number 3 (July 2007). Islam in Africa Newsletter is a publication of PRISM (www.e-prism.org).
© 2007 PRISM – Dr. Moshe Terdman. Republished with permission. Religioscope thanks Reuven Paz / PRISM for permission to republish.
Radio Free Iraq (RFI) correspondent Asma al-Sarraj recently interviewed female Islamist activists on the constitution. She spoke with Mahdiya Abd al-Lami, a member of the Muslim Women’s Federation who advocates a constitution based on Islamic law. Al-Sarraj also interviewed Islamist activist Salama Sumaysim, who said she represents the voice of “moderate Islam.”
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