Interpreting Islamic Political Parties

313 Pages·2009·1.963 MB·English

by  M. A. Mohamed Salih (eds.)

Interpreting Islamic
Political Parties
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Interpreting Islamic
Political Parties
Edited by M. A. Mohamed Salih
INTERPRETING ISLAMIC POLITICAL PARTIES
Copyright © M. A. Mohamed Salih, 2009.
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Interpreting Islamic political parties / edited by M.A. Mohamed Salih.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN-13: 978-1-349-38122-7 (alk. paper)
1. Political parties—Islamic countries. 2. Islamic countries—Politics
and government. I. Salih, Mohamed Abdel Rahim M. (Mohamed
Abdel Rahim Mohamed)
JQ1852.A979I68 2009
324.2’182—dc22 2009001859
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Professor Holger Bernt Hansen, Copenhagen University, Denmark
Friend, colleague and mentor
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Contents
List of Illustrations ix
List of Abbreviations xi
Preface xvii
M. A. Mohamed Salih
Introduction 1
M. A. Mohamed Salih and Abdullahi Osman El-Tom
1 Of Opportunities and Organization: When Do
Islamist Parties Choose to Compete Electorally? 29
Abdulkader H. Sinno and Ahmed Khanani
2 Different Settings, Different Definitions, and
Different Agendas: Islamic and Secular Political
Parties in Indonesia and Malaysia 51
Kees van Dijk
3 Islamic Parties in Indonesia’s Political Landscape and
Their Respective Stances on Women and Minorities 83
Mathias Diederich
4 From Parties to Movements: Islam and Politics
in the Horn of Africa 103
Stefano Bellucci and Massimo Zaccaria
5 Kuwait’s Islamic Constitutional Movement: A
Model or a Warning for Democratic Islamism? 117
Nathan J. Brown
6 One Against All: The National Islamic Front
(NIF) and Sudanese Sectarian and Secular Parties 129
Abdel Ghaffar Mohamed Ahmed
viii Contents
7 Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood and Competitive Politics 149
Sami Zemni and Koenraad Bogaert
8 Islamist Parties in Algeria: Toward
a Political Professionalization? 167
Amel Boubekeur
9 Islamic Political Parties in Secular South Africa 191
M. A. Mohamed Salih
10 Secularism and Islamism in Turkey:
Understanding the 2007 Elections 207
Nuran Sava(cid:2)kan Akdo(cid:3)an
11 Interrogating Liberal Democracy:
The Islamic Movement in Mauritius 231
Sheila Bunwaree
12 The Maldives: The Strange Case of
Islamic Multiparty Liberal Democracy 249
Paul Moorcraft
13 Conceptualizing Hizbollah’s Transformation
in Lebanon’s Post–Cedar Revolution: Proxy
Client or Structural Path Dependency? 259
Karim Knio
Bibliography 269
Notes on Contributors 287
Index 293
Illustrations
Figures
1.1 Expected Effect of Opportunity and Organization
Structure on Islamist Participation in Electoral Politics 40
1.2 Cases 43
Tables
6.1 Distribution of seats resulting from general
elections in 1965/1968/1986 135
6.2 Regime types in Sudan (1956 to date) and the
role of the Islamic Movement 136
9.1 South Africa: Islamic political parties’ orientation
in respect to major social and political issues 202
10.1 Overview of Islamic rooted parties in Turkey 210