Islamic Parties between Ideology and Religion

What is it about?

The main argument of the chapter is that the use of religion by Islamic parties as well as their positioning in the political system is better understood if we adopt a broader conception of political Islam which entails the cultural understandings of religious belonging in relation to national belonging, specific to each nation-state. Publication Date: 2020 Publication Name: Routledge Handbook to Religion and Political Parties

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Why is it important?

Original approach to Islamic parties which goes beyond the dominant investigation of their electoral strategies to understand them within the political culture of the nation-state within which they operate.