Islamists and the Politics of the Arab Uprisings : Governance, Pluralisation and Contention

#### Scrutinises the political strategies and ideological evolution of Islamist actors and forces following the Arab uprisings What role does political Islam play in the genealogy of protests as an instrument to resist neo-liberalism and authoritarian rule? How can we account for the internal conflicts among Islamist players after the 2011/2012 Arab uprisings? How can we assess the performance of Islamist parties in power? What geopolitical reconfigurations have the uprisings created, and what opportunities have arisen for Islamists to claim a stronger political role in domestic and regional politics? These questions are addressed in this book, which looks at the dynamics in place during the aftermath of the Arab uprisings in a wide range of countries across the Middle East and North Africa. #### Key features * 22 case studies explain the diverse trajectories of political Islam since 2011 in Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Qatar, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey and Yemen * Provides a comprehensive analysis of political Islam covering intra-Islamist pluralisation and conflict, governance and accountability issues, ‘secular-Islamist’ contention, responses to neo-liberal development and the resurgence of sectarianism and militancy * Offers a set of innovative approaches to the study of political Islam in the post-Arab spring era that open new possibilities for theory development in the field #### Contributors * **Ibrahim Al-Marashi,** California State University San Marcos * **Nazlı Çağın Bilgili,** Istanbul Kultur University * **Souhaïl Belhadj,** Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva * **Francesco Cavatorta,** Laval University, Quebec * **Chérine Chams El-Dine,** Cairo University * **Katerina Dalacoura,** London School of Economics and Political Science * **Jérôme Drevon,** University of Oxford * **Vincent Durac,** University College Dublin and Bethlehem University * **Laura Ruiz de Elvira Carrascal,** French Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Paris * **Melissa Finn,** University of Waterloo * **Courtney Freer,** London School of Economics and Political Science * **Angela Joya**, University of Oregon * **Wanda Krause,** Royal Roads University * **Mohammed Masbah,** Chatham House and Brandeis University * **Alam Saleh,** Lancaster University * **Jillian Schwedler,** City University of New York’s Hunter College * **Mariz Tadros,** University of Sussex * **Truls Tønnessen,** Georgetown University * **Marc Valeri,** University of Exeter * **Anne Wolf,** University of Cambridge * **Luciano Zaccara,** Qatar University * **Barbara Zollner,** Birkbeck College Abbreviations Notes on the editors and contributors Acknowledgements Chapter 1 Political Islam and the Arab uprisings Part I Islamists and issu es of political and economic governance Chapter 2 Participation not domination: Morsi on an impossible mission? Chapter 3 Governing after protests: the case for political participation in post-2009 Iran Chapter 4 The group that wanted to be a state: the ‘rebel governance’ of the Islamic State Chapter 5 Islamic and Islamist women activists in Qatar post-Arab uprisings: implications for the study of refusal and citizenship Chapter 6 Is Islamism accommodating neo-liberalism? The case of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood Chapter 7 A critique from within: the Islamic left in Turkey and the AKP’s neo-liberal economics Part II Islamist and secular party politics Chapter 8 Rise and endurance: moderate Islamists and electoral politics in the aftermath of the ‘Moroccan Spring’ Chapter 9 Does participation lead to moderation? Understanding changes in the Egyptian Islamist parties post-Arab Spring Chapter 10 Islamist political societies in Bahrain: collateral victims of the 2011 Popular Uprising Chapter 11 Kuwait’s Islamist proto-parties and the Arab uprisings: between opposition, pragmatism and the pursuit of cross-ideological cooperation Chapter 12 Secular forms of politicised Islam in Tunisia: the Constitutional Democratic Rally and Nida’ Tunis Chapter 13 Political parties and secular–Islamist polarisation in post-Mubarak Egypt Part III Intra-Islamist pluralisation and contention Chapter 14 The complexity of Tunisian Islamism: confl icts and rivalries over the role of religion in politics Chapter 15 The reconfiguration of the Egyptian Islamist Social Movement Family after two political transitions Chapter 16 Iraq’s Shi‘a Islamists after the uprisings: the impact of intrasectarian tensions and relations with Iran Chapter 17 The impact of Islamist trajectories on the international relations of the post-2011 Middle East Part IV The Sunni–Shi‘a divide Chapter 18 Islamism in Yemen: from Ansar Allah to al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula Chapter 19 Sectarianism and civil conflict in Syria: reconfigurations of a reluctant issue Chapter 20 Out of the ashes: the rise of an anti-sectarian discourse in post-2011 Iraq Part V Conclusion Chapter 21 Conclusion: new directions in the study of Islamist politics Index