The paper shows how a state controlled religious institution used religion, fear, trauma, insecurity, grievances, and conspiracy theories to dehumanise community, presented it as an existential threat the nation, global community of believers by investigating case Turkey’s Directorate Religious Affairs’ (the Diyanet) securitizing role under authoritarian Islamist Erdo?anist rule. article provid...

Observers of contemporary politics know that Islamic extremism presents ‘the West’ with a serious challenge of national and international security consequent to terrorist events of recent time. In addition to constabulary and military responses, there remains the more fundamental question about how to understand Islamist ideology and how counternarratives might be framed in the interest of law ...

How does religion shape the nature of insurgency? Do Islamist insurgents fight differently from those with secular aims, like national selfdetermination? Do they select different types of targets, use different military strategies, respond to different types of incentives? Scholarly attention to the role of religion in civil and interstate war has increased in recent years, but there remains li...

This article explores the ideas of most prominent Turkish-Islamist movement which operated in late twentieth century, Millî Görüş (‘The National Outlook’). The research focuses on evolution their view Muslim migration to ‘the West’ (focusing Germany as a case study). demonstrates substantive change movement’s discourse subject. During early 1970s, Turkish Islamist politicians and intellectuals ...

This study examines the response of women’s majelis taklimin Surakarta to Islamist movement, through philanthropic activities.This is focused on interviewing congregations and administrators three taklim-Al Husna, Humaira, Da'wah Squad. I argue that taklimis a space express subjectivities pieties. shows there are divided activities at group individual level.At (majelis) level, especially Al pot...

1 The risk of Islamist extremism in East Africa frequently focuses on Somalia and the violent actions of al Shabaab. Yet local adherents to extremist versions of Islam can now be found throughout the region. As a result, tensions both within Muslim communities and between certain Islamist groups and the broader society have been growing in the region in recent years. These tensions have not eme...

The Bush administration’s military war on terrorism is a blunt, ineffective, and unjust response to the threat posed to innocent civilians by terrorism. Decentralized terrorist networks can only be effectively fought by international cooperation among police and intelligence agencies representing diverse nation-states, including ones with predominantly Islamic populations. The Bush administrati...

The terrorist threat to the United States of America comes from a violent Islamist revivalist social movement, united by a utopian vision of justice and fairness. Our efforts to deal with this threat are hampered by the wide variety of commonly held beliefs about terrorism. Conventional wisdom offers up several explanations: terrorists are a product of poverty and broken families; ignorance; th...