A !is article problematizes the complexity of Muslim approaches to the question of modernity. It challenges both a hegemonic voice of a singular and superior Western modernity and an essentialist Islamist response to modernity. It examines the alternative approach of multiple modernities. !is approach calls for a critical dialogue and negotiation between tradition and modernity, expedite...

This article is not a contemplation on women and politics. Neither it discussion Muslim women, the hijab, Islamism. Instead, this testimony to remark Şule Yüksel Şenler, an Islamist vernacular intellectual who blazed trail in politics of Türkiye commencing 1960s but existed Islamism literature rather through her absence. Şenler vernacularised by mobilising public talks, cinema, literature, jour...

Several years ago, before HTI was banned in 2017, many terms appeared the public sphere of Indonesian politics. The are; khilafah, Islam kaffah, NKRI with sharia, and great imam (Imam Besar). This article examines political discourse Indonesia used by FPI. It takes from media, both their internal external media. In addition, there are posters scattered news. These were mainly taken when two org...

As images of beheaded American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff are seared into our consciousness, we would do well to honor their memories by recalling that they saw it as their mission to alert the world to the horrors committed by the fanatical Islamist terrorist group ISIS in Syria and Iraq: Children forced to view crucifixions and beheadings, women bartered, sold and raped, priso...

How do women gain authority in patriarchal religious social movements and how does their authority differ from that of men? This paper examines the authority of female preachers in the Islamist Salafi movement through an analysis of 21,000 texts by 172 men and 43 women on the Salafi-oriented website saaid.net. Salafi gender ideology is not friendly to women’s authority, so why are so many women...