Political Islam

State identity and societal identity are diverging in Turkey: while religion is more and more used by politics in all areas, the younger generations have begun to distance themselves from Islam. A development that offers clues about the future of the country

The reconquest of Afghanistan places the fundamentalist movement at a crossroads. But it also raises the issue of the West’s cultural failure and the new balance of power after America’s disengagement

Twenty years after 11 September: a conversation with Afghan professor Mohammad Hashim Kamali, an influential scholar of Islamic law

Initially taking no part in the street demonstrations, Islamic institutions and organizations have been closely involved in the post-Arab Spring phase. Changes at the political level have also had an impact on the religious discourse, which has nevertheless failed to respond to the demands voiced during the uprisings

The dissolution of the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood suggests that the latter’s fate is similar to that of other Islamist movements in the Middle East. But this conclusion fails to consider the peculiar story of the Ikhwān in Jordan. An account of their relations with the Hashemite regime

The Islamic Republic of Iran is founded on the idea that clerics should exercise political power by virtue of their ability to interpret the divine will, a principle questioned by theologians and intellectuals.

The proposal to blacklist the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization should be understood within the framework of international alliances and the conflict that divides the Gulf states

On 11th February 1979 came the proclamation of the victory of the revolution that deposed the Shah. A historical analysis of the causes and the protagonists of an event that changed the Middle East

Iran is going through a phase of internal fragility because of the new wave of sanctions imposed by the Trump administration. However, it is unlikely that this will lead to the end of the regime

The demonstrations that the acquittal of the Christian woman has provoked have made the influence of Islamists in the country clear. What are the movements on the Pakistani political scene?

Having returned to the Middle-Eastern religious and political centre stage, Muslim clerics are split between supporting rulers, on the basis of a shared hostility towards political Islam, and contesting authoritarianism in the name of an Islamic democracy