14/05/2009 Publication

Cultures of Resistance, issue II

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Tags: Dialogue, Diplomacy, Northern Ireland, Political Islam, War on terrorism

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Volume I, Issue II: From the Margins to the Centre From the Margins to the Centre: An Irish Republican Narrative of Resistance – Raymond McCartney

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01/01/2009 Publication

Wahhabism, Salafism and Islamism: Who is the Enemy?

/ Professor Ahmad Moussalli

Tags: Islamists, Political Islam, Salafism, Wahhabism

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This essay constructs and deconstructs three main discourses created by different and opposing trends in modern Islamic thought that are normally and mistakenly lumped together

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16/06/2008 News

Two-day Course: Understanding Political Islam

Tags: Event, Political Islam

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A two-day specialist course organised by British Muslim Initiative and supported by Al Jazeera Centre for Studies, Conflicts Forum, Demos, Forward Thinking and The Cordoba

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04/03/2008 Article

Arrest of Khaled Hamza Salam

The regime is ramping up its crackdown on MB members to preempt their ability to secure seats in the upcoming municipal elections and has arrested 400+ MB members.

/ Ibrahim El Houdaiby

Tags: Democracy, Egypt, Islamists, Muslim Brotherhood, Political Islam

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I woke up on Wednesday February 20th on the news of the arrest of Khaled Hamza Salam, IkhwanWeb.com co-editor in chief. I was on a

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25/02/2008 Article

Crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood

Brotherhood members are an integral living part of the Egyptian society who can never be marginalized.

/ Ibrahim El Houdaiby

Tags: Democracy, Egypt, Islamists, Muslim Brotherhood, Political Islam

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Those who believe that the ongoing crackdowns on the Muslim Brotherhood by the Egyptian regime will cause a major setback for the country’s largest and

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09/02/2008 Interview

Language – A Tool to Transform Different into Dangerous

Tags: Dialogue, Islamists, Political Islam

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Alastair Crooke interviewed by Christian Porth, Daily Star, February 2, 2008 “If thought corrupts language,” the English author George Orwell wrote in his famous 1946

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01/11/2007 Publication

Hamas Debates the Future – Attempting to Reconcile Ideological Purity and Political Realism

/ Khaled Amayreh

Tags: Hamas, Palestinians, Political Islam

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Palestine’s Islamic Resistance Movement — Hamas — won a surprising electoral victory in the January 2006 Palestinian parliamentary elections. Almost immediately, Hamas leaders, movement activists,

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01/11/2007 Publication

The Political Implications of the Hamas Electoral Victory from the Islamist Perspective

/ Azzam Tamimi

Tags: Democracy, Fatah, Hamas, Palestinians, Political Islam

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The Hamas election victory in January of 2006 sent shockwaves through the Arab world — and through Islamists with varying convictions. The debate among Islamists

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15/10/2007 Article

Hamas: Islamic Democracy and National Liberation

/ Sukant Chandan

Tags: Hamas, Political Islam, Secularism

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The Hamas election victory in January 2006 has led to an increased interest in the Islamic Resistance Movement. Hitherto little had been understood of Hamas’

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