Limits of Islamism

This book focuses on Islamism as a political ideology by taking up the case study of Jamaat-e-Islami in contemporary India and Bangladesh. The book will address how in a contemporary globalized world Islamism constructs an antagonistic frontier and how it mobilizes people behind its political project. The book also deals with the Islamist critique of neoliberal economic policies and western cultural globalization. The book examines the dynamics from the formation of Islamist politics for the struggle for hegemony to failure to become a hegemonic force in Bangladesh. The contradiction between Islamic universalism/Islamist populism on one hand and a politics of Muslim particularism in India on the other is revealed in this study. Finally this book traces the contemporary crisis of Islamist populism in providing an alternative to neoliberalism.