Joseph Braude traces the history of Islamist movements from the founding of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt in 1928 to today.
"Islamism is an approach to politics based on an interpretation of Islamic teachings. It’s a broad term that refers to political parties, social movements, and armed groups with differing views on democracy, women, and the use of violence.
Noah Feldman is a professor at Harvard Law School and author of The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State. He places the rise of Islamism at the early 20th century, when the Ottoman Empire surrendered to European powers at the end of World War I.
“The defeat of the Ottoman Empire was a kind of epochal moment for Muslim history. For the first time, the caliphate, which had previously been able to claim a continuous history going back more than a millennium, was no longer in existence. This caused many people in different parts of the Muslim world to ask themselves what went wrong. One of the answers that some people sought was to say that the true values and beliefs of Islam had been abandoned.”"
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