CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2009
| Author | Sen, Somdeep |
|---|---|
| Title | Transnationalism in Islamist Political Thought: The Case of The Muslim Brotherhood (Egypt) and Hezbollah |
| Summary | Islamism today is an integral aspect of the global political arena. Islamist entities play a key role in the political, social and cultural realms of many Muslim societies. Often this has seen violent manifestation in the form of suicide bombings, skirmishes and kidnappings. While the rhetoric of the global war on terror has been quick to simplify these acts by denoting them broadly as terrorism, it fails to take into account the ideological framework that lies behind such acts. This study therefore attempts to study Islamist political thought but through the narrow framework of the role of transnationalism in it. Doing so it is able to establish a dual realm within the Islamist ideological framework where transnational concerns regarding the broader Muslim world coexists with specific national aspirations and contexts within which such entities operate. What is then displayed is a significant correlation that exists between these two seemingly alternate frameworks (i.e. the transnational and the domestic). With this theoretical understanding in place, it is operationalized through a study of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and Hezbollah in Lebanon; both entities being deeply rooted in both the national and the transnational. |
| Supervisor | Papkov, Irina |
| Department | International Relations MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2009/sen_somdeep.pdf |
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