Coinage of the term ‘Political Islam’: Perspectives, Implications and prospects
Keywords:
Post-Islamism, political hegemony, Islamic political theory, Muslim democrats, political harmony, pluralism, post-Arab spring, Islamic resurgence movements, Conscious Muslim PolityAbstract
This paper aims to unfold genealogical notions backing the coinage of political
Islam and its related discourses and attempts to search out its complementation or
contradiction in contemporary political arena. Primarily, the study focuses on
holistic and theoretical view of political Islam with its perspectives, implications and
prospects. The study also aims to analyze the basic theory and current strategies of
Islamic movements which may be considered the vanguard of Islamic revolution.
These movements have created a certain discourse of political activism that is one
of the matters of hottest debate in the contemporary world. Discourse analysis
method with its approach of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) is going to be used
and qualitative data collected from specific and relevant strata will be analyzed. The
study argues that conspiracy theory is one of the key factors involved in offending
political Islam and apparently, a valued segment of scholars concerned to the
subject believe that Islamic political Theory must not be perceived as the source of
violence and a root for terrorism discourses.
