Differentiating between Pakistan and <i>Napak-istan</i>: Maulana Abul Ala Maududi's Critique of the Muslim League and Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Qasmi, Ali Usman

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“…In summary, Islamism as a phenomenon of the secular age started with Mawdudi and his Jamaat-e-Islami's opposition to the Muslim League, whose non-Islamist or secular character allowed Mawdudi and his party to be Islamist (Ahmad 2009;Qasmi 2017;Sayyid 2017). The secular Muslim League eventually became Islamist, not because Mawdudi's criticisms of the Muslim League were no longer relevant, but because of a shift in the meaning of the secular and Islam which posited BAL as the "secular" alternative to the "Islamist" Muslim League.…”

Section: Islamist-secularist Divide In Bangladeshmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This does not mean that those are Muslim beings would vanish from the earth but, simply, being Muslim would no longer be possible. (2014: 3) Mawdudi holds similar qualms about Muslim League's idea of Pakistan (Qasmi 2017). The Muslim League wanted to ensure Muslim rights are solidified as understood in secular terms, which has resulted in Pakistan becoming yet another one of many Kemalist states (Sayyid 2017).…”

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Inventing Islam(ism): De-Islamization under Secular Authoritarianism in Bangladesh

Fahim¹

2022

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The presence of Islamism in Muslimistan necessitates a secular age, as only in a secular age does it become possible to be for or against Islam due to the decentering of Islam as the default organizing premise of Muslim societies. Within this fundamental de-Islamization or secularization of Muslim societies, further de-Islamization is made possible by secular power’s ability to dictate and even produce Islam, which continues to perpetually shift the meanings of secularism and Islamism in accordance with the European Enlightenment’s notion of progress. The banality and universality of secularism, and markedness and provinciality of Islam(ism), ensure that only the (perceived) absence of secularism and (perceived) presence of Islamism are felt – never the other way around. Bangladesh’s recent authoritarian turn, its social engineering during secular authoritarianism, and the recent calls for democratization – all point towards the secularist politics of de-Islamization which invents Islam(ism) in de-Islamization, and which then explains the failings of secularism through the regime and Bangladesh’s “Islamist character”. The implications include a never-ending de-Islamization process, spelling the end of the post-Islamism thesis, as post-Islamism becomes an impossible state. Secular power invents in post-Islamism a new Islamism, delaying the post-Islamist moment ad infinitum.

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Section: Islamist-secularist Divide In Bangladeshmentioning

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Section: Restoration Of Democracymentioning

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Inventing Islam(ism): De-Islamization under Secular Authoritarianism in Bangladesh

Fahim¹

2022

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Purveyors of Radical Islamism or Casualty of Cultural Nationalism: Situating Jamaat-e-Islami in Contemporary Bangladesh Politics

Hajjaj

2023

Journal of Asian and African Studies

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Between 1979 and 2013, the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami was the largest Islamist political party in the country and the only one that ever played a prominent role in government. In 2013, the party had its registration revoked, effectively banning it from running in elections, and has since been stigmatized as a terrorist, or at the very least a terror-sympathizing, organization. This paper looks at the nature of the party and the roles it has played historically in Bangladesh politics. It also investigates the party’s alleged links with religious extremism and terrorist activities in the country, and the roles the party has played in perpetuating religious nationalism.

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Differentiating between Pakistan and Napak-istan: Maulana Abul Ala Maududi's Critique of the Muslim League and Muhammad Ali Jinnah

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Inventing Islam(ism): De-Islamization under Secular Authoritarianism in Bangladesh

Inventing Islam(ism): De-Islamization under Secular Authoritarianism in Bangladesh

Purveyors of Radical Islamism or Casualty of Cultural Nationalism: Situating Jamaat-e-Islami in Contemporary Bangladesh Politics

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