1st Edition

Islamic Revivalism in Syria The Rise and Fall of Ba'thist Secularism

By Line Khatib Copyright 2011
268 Pages
by Routledge

268 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

1. Introduction to the Subject of Secularism and Islamic Revivalism in Syria  Part 1: The Origins of the Conflict  2. The Rise of a Secular Party to Power  3. The Rise and Fall of Political Islam in Syria  Part 2: 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  5. Resurgence of Neo-fundamentalism and Decline of Political Islam as a Model for Change (1982-2000)  Part 3: 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  7. Islamization from Below: Islamic Revivalism as a Model for Social Change and the Erosion of Ba´thist Secularism  8. Re-emergence of Political Islam: Syria’s Islamist Groups  9. Islamic Activism and Secularism in Syria  10. Conclusion

Biography

Line Khatib is a senior research fellow at the ICAMES (Inter-University Consortium of Arab and Middle Eastern Studies), McGill University, and a visiting scholar at the Dubai School of Government. Her research interests lie within the fields of Comparative Politics, Political Economy, Political Islam, and Secularism, with a particular focus on Islamic groups as both social and political movements.