Shadi Hamid and William McCants on Rethinking Political Islam

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🗓️ 13 October 2017

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Political Islam has been radically shifting in the past four years since the Egyptian coup and the emergence of ISIS, consequently challenging how we understand Islamist movements and their impact. To evaluate the evolution of mainstream Islamist groups and the obstacles they face in governance, Brookings Senior Fellows Shadi Hamid and Will McCants led an initiative to assess these movements across 12 countries, compiling field research from a group of leading specialists in their recently released book Rethinking Political Islam. Benjamin Wittes interviewed Shadi and Will on their book, discussing the scope of the volume, the common themes across the major movements, and the nuances of movements in countries like Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Syria.

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0:29.0	The common academic way to do this is that you would take tracks written by Islamist actors
0:41.0	and translate them and shove them in an appendix.
0:44.0	And maybe your authors have reacted to those in some way.
0:48.0	But it's a pretty static enterprise and the conversation is one way.
0:52.0	What Shaddy and I wanted to do was involve these actors that were being studied
0:57.0	much more in the process and to illuminate this dynamic for what it is,
1:03.0	which is an interchange between analysts who study this thing and that thing reacting to the analysis.
1:11.0	And then the analysts themselves rethinking what they've written.
1:15.0	And so this book then is an attempt to give voice to the Islamist,
1:19.0	but make sure they are in conversation with the scholars.
1:23.0	And the scholars really shaping the debate so it's not the Islamist just given a platform
1:29.0	and allowed to speak unchowns to the world.
1:32.0	But it's really in conversation with the scholars that are studying them,
1:36.0	which is unusual for a publication on political Islam.
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1:42.0	October 14th, 2017, political Islam has been radically shifting in the past four years
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