1st Edition
Are Islamists Still Islamists? An Ontological-Relational Analysis
By Sümeyye Sakarya
Copyright 2026
194 Pages
by
Routledge
194 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book offers an ontological study of Islamism and its transformation with a specific focus on Türkiye, Bangladesh, and Senegal.
The dominant reading of the transformation of Islamism from a discernibly Islamist, then anti-systemic discourse to a more systemic one has been through the arguments of post-Islamism, which claim the failure and end of Islamism. However, this assumes that... Read more
Introduction
Chapter 1- An Odyssey of Oblivion: Ontology, Islamism and the Political
Chapter 2 – Politics: Post-Islamism
Chapter 3 – Almost Political: Weak Orientalism
Chapter 4 – The Political
Chapter 5 – Relationality as a Way Out from Methodological Nationalism
Chapter 6 – Transnational Kemalism: A Ghost Haunting the Muslim World
Chapter 7 – Islamisation as Passive Revolution
Chapter 8 – Kemalism Strikes Back
Conclusion
Biography
Sümeyye Sakarya is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration in the Faculty of Political Sciences at Ankara University, Türkiye.
