Islamic revivalism in Syria : the rise and fall of Ba'thist secularism / / Line Khatib

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910790224703321
• Autore: Khatib Line
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon [England] ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2011
• ISBN: 1-136-66177-8; 1-280-68326-0; 9786613660206; 0-203-80736-7; 1-136-66178-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (263 p.)
• Collana: Routledge studies in political Islam ; ; 7
• Disciplina: 297.27209569109051; 320.5/57095691
• Soggetti: Islam and politics - Syria; Islam and state - Syria; Islamic renewal - Syria; Secularism - Syria; Syria Politics and government 2000-
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover; Islamic Revivalism in Syria; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction to the subject of secularism and Islamic revivalism in Syria; 1. Scope of the study; 2. Key research questions and key variables; 3. "Islamic," "Islamist" and "fundamentalist" defined; 4. Why study Syria's relationship with its Islamic movement?; 5. Theoretical contribution to scholarship; 6. Map of the work; Part I: The origins of the conflict; 2. The rise of a secular party to power; 1. Introduction; 2. The Syrian model of secularism; 3. Ba'th Party doctrine and ascent to power; 4. Conclusion3. The rise and fall of political Islam in Syria; 1. Introduction; 2. The Muslims Brothers: a different kind of social base and agenda; 3. Political Islam vs. the secular Ba'th; 4. Conclusion of Part I; Part II: Hafez al-Asad's era and the conflict with the Muslim ; Brotherhood: Muting of Ba'thist secularism in Syria; 4. Conflict with the Muslim Brotherhood; 1. Introduction; 2. Hafez al-Asad's rise to power; 3. Explanations of the violent contention: political and economic grievances, anomie and social alienation; 4. An open challenge, with emphasis on the secular element; 5. Conclusion5. Resurgence of neo-fundamentalism and decline of political Islam as a model for change (1982-2000); 1. Introduction; 2. Control and the blurring of borders between the state and society; 3. Co-optation compromise and the muting of secularism; 4. Conclusion; Part III: Bashar al-Asad's era: Fundamentalist and Islamist revivalism; 6. Bashar al-Asad following in his father's footsteps: The promotion of moderate Islam from above in the name of de-radicalization; 1. Introduction; 2. Islamization from above: how is today's Ba'thist regime further empowering Syria's Islamic sector?; 3. The resulting above-board and underground activity4. Conclusion; 7. Islamization from below: Islamic revivalism as a model for social change and the erosion of Ba'thist secularism; 1. Introduction; 2. The dawn of an Islamic renaissance: general discourse; 3. Outreach methods and Islamization from below; 4. Syria's fundamentalist groups; 5. Conclusion; 8. Re-emergence of political Islam: Syria's Islamist groups; 1. Introduction: opposition pacifism and opposition activism in the search for systemic change; 2. Ideology: Islamists vs. fundamentalists; 3. Syria's pacifist Islamists: al-Tayar al-Islami al-Dimuqrati and the Syrian Islamic Front4. Islamist militant groups and the call to Islamic resistance; 5. Conclusion; 9. Islamic activism and secularism in Syria; 1. Introduction; 2. The state's betrayal of the populist myth could come back to haunt it; 3. Future trends in Syria: Islamizing or secularizing?; 4. Syrian secularism today: containment measures and current attitudes towards the Islamization of the state; 5. Conclusion; 10. Conclusion; 1. Scope of study; 2. Questions explored and findings; 3. Theoretical analysis; 4. Contribution; 5. The work's main arguments
• Sommario/riassunto: Contemporary studies on Syria assume that the country's Ba'thist regime has been effective in subduing its Islamic opposition, placing Syria at odds with the Middle East's larger trends of rising Islamic activism and the eclipse of secular ideologies as the primary source of political activism. Yet this assumption founders when confronted with the clear resurgence in Islamic militantism in the country since 2004. This book examines Syria's current political reality as regards its Islamic movement, describing the country's present day Islamic groups - particularly their social