The Future of Political Islam

The End of the Virtual : Digital Methods

“…18 Hayle's point of departure may be seen in Mathew Fuller's work on Microsoft Word and Adobe Photoshop, which studies how particular software constrains or enables text. 19 To Fuller, a Microsoft document or a Photoshop image are specific outputs of software, distinctive from some document or some image. An accompanying research program would study the effects of (software) features, as Lev Manovich also points to in his work on the specificity of computer media.…”

Political Islam (The Justice and Development Party in Turkey) Versus the Gülen Movement

“…The interpretation of Islam by individuals, nations and cultures is different than Islam itself for it can be interpreted in many different ways. Political Islam is a particular form of interpretation which aims to establish a political structure (Fuller, 2003). The supporters of this ideology desire to create an Islamic state which is governed by the Sharia.…”

“…Political Islam stands for the ideology that Islam as a body of faith has something important to say about how politics and society should be ordered in the contemporary Muslim world and who seeks to implement this idea in some fashion (Fuller, 2003). It pursues political objectives and provides political responses to today's problems by concepts borrowed from the Islamic tradition (Denoeux, 2002).…”

Trends of change across the Taiwan Strait towards 2020

“…In most Islamic countries, religion and politics are closely interconnected [33]. Similarly, before Tibet became a de facto part of the PRC, the Dalai Lama was a religious as well as a political leader in the region.…”