{"id":4322,"date":"2024-03-26T19:26:30","date_gmt":"2024-03-26T19:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/?p=4322"},"modified":"2024-03-26T19:27:41","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T19:27:41","slug":"a-theseus-paradox-interrogating-the-shift-in-islamism-in-indian-administered-kashmir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/?p=4322","title":{"rendered":"A Theseus Paradox: Interrogating the Shift in Islamism in Indian-administered Kashmir"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Author:<\/b> Iymon Majid<\/span><\/a><\/p>

Affiliation:<\/b> Jamia Millia Islamia<\/span><\/a>, Dept. of Political Science (New Delhi)<\/span><\/p>

Organization\/Publisher:<\/b> Politics, Religion & Ideology (Journal) by Routledge<\/span><\/p>

Date\/Place:<\/b> August 26, 2020\/UK<\/span><\/p>

Number of Pages:<\/b> 22<\/span><\/p>

Type of Literature:<\/b> Academic Paper<\/span><\/p>

Link:<\/b> https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/21567689.2020.1809383<\/span><\/a><\/p>

Keywords:<\/b> Kashmir, Pakistan, Jama\u2019at-e-Islami, Tehreek-e-Hurriyat Jammu and Kashmir, India, Islamism, Conflict<\/span><\/i><\/p>

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The author looks at the issues faced by Islamists in Indian-occupied Kashmir through the theory of post-Islamism \u2014 a term used by Iranian political sociologist Asef Bayat (1996) to explain “a condition where, following a phase of experimentation, the appeal, energy, symbols and sources of legitimacy of Islamism get exhausted, even among its once-ardent supporters.\u201d\u00a0 The author uses the theory to explain in detail the internal dynamics of Jama\u2019at-e-Islami in the UN-recognized disputed territory and also the formation of Tehreek-e-Hurriyat (Movement for freedom \u2013 from India). India banned Jama\u2019at-e-Islami in February 2019, and the paper tries to foresee its impact on the future of Islamism in the region. The author\u2019s scholarship revolves around the Islamists in the region and has earned him a good space among the few commentators on the issue. A possible excitation among the Islamists across the world is their resistance to the powers that be \u2013 here, the author argues that Islamists are often repressed, outlawed and banned by various regimes around the world because \u201cthe centrality of the state in the Islamist theory which puts them in direct confrontation with the regimes.\u201d Islamists in the disputed territory have not been able to capture state power, and due to the high degree of repression the author argues that Jama\u2019at-e-Islami has \u201cmade a strategic shift which means that it fits into the template created for explaining post-Islamism.\u201d It does not mean a shift in the politics of Islamists, he adds. However, the paper emphasizes that the organization (Jama\u2019at-e-Islami) does not represent a post-Islamist politics as it \u201cemphatically decried electoral participation (which it had once celebrated) but emphasized on social justice programs in the fields of education and community welfare.\u201d It underwent a sea change where, the author argues, \u201cthe old planks were being reassembled to lay the edifice of a new ship.\u201d Thus, Kashmir-resolution focused Tehreek-e-Hurriyat came into being in 2004 \u2013 it began as a forceful engagement with the state reviving the \u201ccore demands of Islamist politics that it should accede with Pakistan because of its Muslim character and that the region should be governed by Islamic principles as laid down by Islamist ideologue Syed Abul Ala Maududi. The author concludes that change in strategy or politics does not mean an Islamist organization loses its Islamic character.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

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