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Chapter 18: The Rise of Political Islam, 1928\u20132024<\/h1>\n\n\n
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This chapter looks at the conditions that paved the way for the rise of political Islam and the forces driving the quest for an Islamic state. The modern concept of the Islamic state was developed by Muhammad Rashid Rida in response to the dissolution of the Caliphate, the increasing influence of the Western colonial powers on Muslim societies and the emerging Zionist movement. At the heart of this notion of state is the implementation of Islamic law ( shari\u2018a ) and shari\u2018a compliant governing institutions. Islamist organizations have used a variety of strategies to achieve such an Islamic state, ranging from approaches that focus on the transformation of society through education and forming political parties advocating an Islamist platform to armed attacks against the state as well as popular revolution. State responses to the Islamist challenge can broadly be divided into two categories: co-optation and suppression. This chapter also shows that Islamist organizations have a variety of different Islamist ideologies which influences their approach and what the Islamic state they are trying to establish looks like. The Taliban\u2019s Islamic Emirate in Afghanistan thus differs significantly from the Islamic Republic of Iran. The emergence of international jihadism in the 1980s with the Soviet-Mujahideen war in Afghanistan has added another ideological and strategic dimension, leading to increased jihadi cooperation across state boundaries and to the global jihadism of Al-Qaeda and ISIS which targets the West and the regimes it supports. Transnational Islam, however, has not just been restricted to organizations but has also been a driving force in the foreign policy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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