...Austin J. Knuppe This essay outlines how Islamic State repressed local communities after conquering much of Iraq’s territory in 2014, and how civilians, in turn, responded to insurgent governance. While there are as many ways to survive violence as there are people affected by it, most survival...

... and outsider, balancing principles and ambition, from the streets to prison to parliament, and back around again. Throughout, he has done surely more than anyone else to coax Malaysia along new sociopolitical paths, helping to elevate both conservative Islamism and progressive political liberalism, in novel...

...Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi Today it is hard to imagine the connection between the world that revolutionary impulse envisioned and the actuality it generated in the Islamic Republic. © 2019 Current History. All rights reserved. 2019 The Regents of the University of California Iran Ayatollah...

...Ewan Stein A new book's argument that Islam is exceptional, with an inbuilt resistance to democracy, sounds to our reviewer like an echo of an earlier era's Orientalist assumptions. Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle Over Islam Is Reshaping the World , by Shadi Hamid St. Martin's...

... Fawaz Gerges jihadism middle east ISIS ISIL IS Islamic State caliph caliphate Islamism islamist fundamentalism fundamentalist terrorist root orgin sectarian co-opt sharia execution al-Baghdadi near east Al Qaeda AQI Qutb jihad jihadist Syria Iraq Kurds Kurd Kurdish...

... Saudi Arabian kingdom sharia counterrevolution thermidorian thermidor shia sunni Islamism islamist salafi eastern province military gulf cooperation leadership regional 344 Saudi Arabia has emerged as the most vigorous stalwart of what can best be described as the reactionary...

...Ellen Lust; Gamal Soltan; Jakob Wichmann Although Islamism is helping to shape political transitions in the Arab world, this does not foreclose the possibilities of democratization. © 2012 Current History. All rights reserved. 2012 The Regents of the University of California Ellen Lust...

...Ashraf El Sherif It makes no sense today to divide Arab politics into neatly crafted opposites, the ‘Islamist’ versus the ‘civil democratic’ blocs. © 2011 Current History. All rights reserved. 2011 The Regents of the University of California Ashraf El Sherif Islamism Arab Spring...

...Isa Blumi Even as Western societies worry about the ‘rise of Islamic fundamentalism,’ the international community's ill-conceived policies for Kosova's rural Muslim population may prove to be directly responsible for the production of Europe's own Taliban. © 2003 Current History. All rights...

..., increasingly presenting images of the United States and its allies in order to depict Islam as inherently peaceful, and the United States and its allies as inherently war-seeking. © 2002 Current History. All rights reserved. 2002 The Regents of the University of California Afghanistan Anti...

...: an absolute monarchy tilting toward the West or a revolutionary Islamist regime hostile to the West. Networks of Dissent: Islamism and Reform in Saudi Arabia GWENN OKRUHLIK The politics of Islamist dissent in Saudi Ara-bia have come under intense scrutiny sinceSeptember 11. This is hardly surprising. Osama...