A comparative study of contemporary Islamic discourses

yahya fozi¹

1) Faculty member of the Institute of Imam Khomeini and Islamic Revolution

IOI Code : XYEC-BAKZF
Publication : The 4th International Conference on Engineering and Applied Sciences(4iceasconf.com)
Abstract :
    Political Islamist movement is an extensive social movement in the Muslim world, trying to establish Islamic values in political, social and cultural arenas of Muslim world. Although all groups within the Islamist movement have some commonalities, they are not similar in all respects and one cannot consider them similar. Because Islamist movements have important differences with each other, these differences are rooted in social, political, and religious context. These differences lead to different patterns of government, goals, foreign policy, domestic policy and their interaction with other communities and even other Muslim sects. This article is an attempt to find answer to following question: what are the differences and similarities within the Islamist movement in the Muslim world? To provide answer to this question a bi-dimensional mode has been used. It includes geographical differences and similarities on the one hand and theoretical differences on the other hand. The geographical area in this study includes the Middle East, North Africa and significant parts of Asia and South Asia and the Indian Subcontinent. Five major currents of thought in this have been identified which include: Traditionalists, conservatives, traditionalist reformists, political Salafis, Salafi Takfiri Jihadists and, Islamic modernists. Attempts have been made to examine the similarities and differences between these Islamic groups. The hypothesis of this paper is: Although all these Islamist movements call for overcoming the crises in Islamic societies by emphasizing religious values, they have important differences in their approaches to Islam and struggle policies and their interaction with modernity. The domination of each of these trends on the Islamic movement can cause different consequences for regional peace and security

Keywords : political islam islamism discourse the discourse of islamic revolution of iran