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Public Culture (1997) 10 (1): 61–81.
Published: 01 January 1997
... according to Islamic
precepts while attending public schools. An Islamist party (Refah Partisi) has
been the senior member of a coalition government since July 1996, rendering the
Islamization of the public debate and its...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2007) 19 (3): 433–459.
Published: 01 September 2007
..., it occurred to
me. Observing this man of religion taking such pleasure in temporal diversions,
I could not help wondering why puritan Islamists express such hostility toward
fun and joy.
One of the ironies of “fundamentalist” Islamism is that it has tenaciously with-
stood waves of political...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2007) 19 (1): 175–196.
Published: 01 January 2007
..., secrecy, and political tactics of the grassroots-based
MB engender the mistrust of many political forces, including some Islamists.
At the same time, the secularist-Islamist polarization hinders the possibility of
All translations are the author’s.
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Journal Article
Public Culture (2009) 21 (3): 517–537.
Published: 01 September 2009
... to the popular will. Recent political events in Turkey present a dramatic contrast to this historically established antagonism between secularization and populist politics. In the spring of 2007 a series of mass demonstrations, rallied in the name of secularism and against the elected Islamist regime, were...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2014) 26 (1 (72)): 127–152.
Published: 01 January 2014
... the ability of these regimes to solicit the love of their population successfully. That the new Western-backed NGOs as well as local Islamist NGOs are now in charge of the neoliberal “social” programs that have replaced state programs has undercut Machiavelli’s formula of rule significantly (in the case...
Journal Article
Public Culture (1995) 8 (1): 51–71.
Published: 01 January 1995
... Islam, Islam of the Sufi orders, Islam of student
activists, Islam of “Islamist intellectuals,” Islam as embedded in the oral culture
and daily practices of the neighborhood, or Islam of scriptural orthodoxy. There
are clearly different ways of knowing Islam, distinct yet intertwined. My concern...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2024) 36 (2 (103)): 153–179.
Published: 01 May 2024
... academia, narratives of the Iranian revolution are too often predetermined by its outcome, generating the impression that this was from the beginning an Islamist revolution, and little else. At the same time, there is general agreement that what united the hundreds of thousands coming to the streets...
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Journal Article
Public Culture (2002) 14 (1): 277–279.
Published: 01 January 2002
.... For this reason, the project highlights nondiscursive, embodied
practices that through habitualized performance institute publics of their own,
reimagining them from below.
Hypervisible Islamist movements certainly are bids for recognition by the
public at large. But they are more: highly creative and ever...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2002) 14 (1): 173–190.
Published: 01 January 2002
..., and Islamist, which refers to a social movement through which Muslim identity is collec-
tively reappropriated as a basis for an alternative social and political project. Thus Islamism implies
a critique and even a discontinuity with the given categories of Muslim identity; it is an endeavor to
rename...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2010) 22 (1): 25–32.
Published: 01 January 2010
... the Islamist movement.
5. Hossein Bashiriyeh, “The Islamic Revolution Derailed,” in “The Iranian Revolution at Thirty,”
special issue, Viewpoints, January 29, 2009, 35, www.mei.edu.
6. Edward W. Said, Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the
Rest of the World, 2nd ed...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2006) 18 (2): 323–347.
Published: 01 May 2006
... as Indonesia, Malaysia, Morocco, Jordan, Egypt, and Turkey suggest, the
United States’ popularity has never been at such a low. There is also every indica-
tion that Islamist opposition (whether reformist or militant) is thriving all over...
Journal Article
Public Culture (1993) 5 (3): 493–513.
Published: 01 September 1993
... and Alexandria and to the educational and urban circum-
stances of both the secular television professionals and their Islamist opponents,
people view the two positions that are so at odds in the capital as merely the
twin faces of modernity. This raises the question of the effectiveness...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2007) 19 (3): 615–616.
Published: 01 September 2007
...
is Making Islam Democratic: Social Movements and the Post-Islamist Turn
(2007).
Brian T. Edwards teaches literature and cultural studies at Northwestern Univer-
sity, where he directs the Globalizing American Studies project. He is the author
of Morocco Bound: Disorienting America’s Maghreb, from...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2024) 36 (2 (103)): 145–152.
Published: 01 May 2024
... of work are crucial to recovering the historical presence of heterogeneity in the Iranian public sphere and to disrupting the monolithic representations of the Islamist revolution that has dominated the study of Iranian society and politics. They ask how one might place the work of artists whose distinct...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2009) 21 (3): 451–464.
Published: 01 September 2009
... and Sudan, opened an Islamist
school in Kenya, attempted to assassinate Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak,
and hijacked an Ethiopian Airlines flight.3 Such a dossier suggests that Fazul is an
archetypal master terrorist: a nearly superhuman operative with the skills neces-
sary to execute a global...
Journal Article
Public Culture (1991) 3 (2): 29–40.
Published: 01 May 1991
.... In Western film theory much is made of the putative maleness of the
gaze and of its aggressiveness as a controlling, sadistic agent that serves to
support phallocentric power relations (Mulvey 1989; Kaplan 1983).
In the Islamist reading of the gaze, on the other hand...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2012) 24 (1 (66)): 109–129.
Published: 01 January 2012
... Studies . ———. 2011 . Hamas and civil society in Gaza: Engaging the Islamist social sector . Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press . Sachs Wolfgang , ed. 1992 . The development dictionary: A guide to knowledge as power . London : Zed Books . Samuelson Paul A. 1954...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2016) 28 (3 (80)): 447–456.
Published: 01 September 2016
... magazine about the poetry of jihad. We noted the surprising fact that militant Islamist movements in the Arabic-speaking world produce an enormous amount of verse, almost all of it online. These militant poems, which include elegies for suicide bombers, odes for Islamist victories, and invective verse...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2009) 21 (3): 437–439.
Published: 01 September 2009
... and fold them into
a single moral order. Examining the tensions that sustain the field of democratic
politics in Turkey, Kabir Tambar looks at a series of mass demonstrations rallied
in the name of secularism and against the elected Islamist regime and through
them explores the tentative formation...
Journal Article
Public Culture (1996) 8 (2): 251–289.
Published: 01 May 1996
.... Keane , J. 1988. Civil Society and the State . London: Verso. Kramer , G. 1993. “Islamist Notions of Democracy.” MERIP 23 : 2 -8. Lambek , M. 1990. “Certain Knowledge, Contestable Authority.” American Ethnologist 17 ( 1 ): 23 -40. Last , M. 1988. “Charisma...
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