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Governing Islam and Violent Radicalization Relational Constructions and Implications

Edited By Tina Magazzini, Georges Fahmi Copyright 2027

316 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

Description

Governing Islam and Violent Radicalization explores the links between the governance of religious diversity and violent radicalization. Drawing on interdisciplinary scholarship and case studies from both Muslim-majority and Muslim-minority settings, as well as case-studies centering transnational and non-state actors, this volume problematizes the often-simplistic portrayal of Islam as a... Read more

Table of Contents

1. Governing Islam and Violent Radicalization: Relational Constructions and Implications

Tina Magazzini and Georges Fahmi

Section 1: State and Islam in Muslim Majority Countries

2. Spiritual Security and the Governance of Islam in Morocco

Badr Karkbi

3. From Mubarak to Sisi: Islamism, Radicalisation and Reforming Islam Between State Hegemony or Autonomy

Sara Tonsy

4. Reputation or Results? Disentangling Moderate Islam and Countering Violent Extremism in Malaysia

Nicholas Chan

5. Labelling Islam: The Diversity of Discourses on a Moderate Islam à la Indonesia

Amanda tho Seeth

6. Islam-Secular Dualism and Religious Extremism Governance in Bangladesh

Muhammad Rezaur Rahmna

7. Pakistan's Religious Governance in a Diverse Society Battling Extremism

I. B.

Section 2: State and Islam in Muslim Minority Countries

8. Reconceptualising the External and Internal Reasons for the 2018 Easter Sunday Attacks: The Rise of Islamic Extremism in Sri Lanka

Mohamed Faslan and Łukasz Zamęcki

9. A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy? Researching Institutional Trust Towards Muslims in France

Tina Magazzini

10. Italian Muslim Communities and National Counterterrorism Strategy:

Between Normalisation and Securitisation

Vito Morisco

11. A Tale of Two Threats: The Creation of ‘Islamism’ and the ‘Far Right’ in UK Policy and Media

Richard McNeil-Willson

Section 3: Non State Actors’ Perceptions and Actions

12. Management of Religion in a Nation Without a State: The Emergence of Salafism and Religious Nationalism in Kurdistan

Kamaran Palani

13. Hamas’s Religious Response to Salafi-Jihadism in Gaza

Georges Fahmi

14. Religious Moderation into Populist Radical Right: How the Politics of “Muslim (De)radicalization” Structures Religious Christian Youths’ Orientations in France and the Netherlands

Metin Koca

15. Quietist Salafists Countering Violent Extremism

Evin Ismail

16. Tolerance, Violence, Competition: Changing Forms of Conflict Between the Islamic Establishment in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Religious Opposition

Zora Hesová

17. Conclusions: The Politics of Religious Reforms and Countering Violent Radicalization

George Fahmi and Tina Magazzini

Editor(s)

Biography

Tina Magazzini is a Distinguished Researcher at the University of Valladolid (Department of Sociology), Spain, and affiliated to the Czech Academy of Sciences (Institute of Ethnology, Department of Mobility and Migration) in Prague, Czechia, as well as a co-director of the non-profit Integrim Lab.

Georges Fahmi is Research Director at the Arab Forum for Alternatives in Beirut, Lebanon. He was previously a Research Fellow at the Middle East Directions Programme of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute in Fiesole, Italy, and an associate fellow at the Middle East and North Africa Programme of Chatham House.

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