This article analyzes Islamism and Sayyid Quṭb’s political concept of al-Ḥākimiyyah. According to Qutb, is a structure part the Muslim faith. Employing theoretical perspective functions interpretation proposed by Jorge J. E. Gracia, this analysis found out that al-Ḥākimiyyah most vital behind phenomenon around global religious fundamentalism. theory promotes believed be emanated from God’s will...

The Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) has a long history of siding with civil protestors in times of national political crisis. In recent years, waves of popular protests, often called the Arab Spring, have affected political developments across the Arab world. This CMI Insight analyzes what role the military may have, should similar calls for political change also reach Sudan. It does so by examining t...

Theorizing rebellion seems a self-contradictory task. The moment one encapsulates, staticizes, and, in effect, institutionalizes rebellion in academized walls of theory, is the moment at which one has stripped rebellion of its dignity and, in some respects, of its purpose. Rebellion, as Albert Camus deanes it, is the right to determine one’s own boundaries. It is the right to assert the truth a...

Developing an argument based in theories of democratic consolidation and religious competition, and discussing the reasons for the secularist opposition to the government, this article analyses how government by a party rooted in moderate Islamism may affect Turkey’s peculiar secular democracy, development and external relations and how Muslims in the world relate to modernization and democracy...