What is Post-Islamism?

Author(s):
Bayat, A.
Published
2005
Publication type
Article / Letter to editor

Abstract

On 26 April 2005 Asef Bayat presented his inaugural lecture at Leiden University entitled, “Islam and Democracy: Perverse Charm of an Irrelevant Question,” presented here in extracted form. He posits that Islamist movements in Muslim societies are undergoing a post-Islamist turn characterized by rights instead of duties, plurality in place of a singular authoritative voice, historicity rather than fixed scriptures, and the future instead of the past. The full text of the lecture will be available through ISIM and Leiden University.

Islamism
Date issued
2005
Language
English
Publisher
ISIM, Leiden
Is part of
ISIM Review (2005), Vol. 16, no. 1, p. 5-5
hdl
1887/17030