Publication date: 1 October 2026
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781806551699
Number of illustrations: 5
Poetics and Politics of Islamic Imaginaries
Sertaç Sehlikoglu (Editor), Fatemeh Sadeghi (Editor), Sumrin Kalia (Editor), Erol Saglam (Editor), Alexander Pymm (Editor)
Poetics and Politics of Islamic Imaginaries shows how narratives of culture, masculinist restoration and revolutionary spirit drive, connect and reinvent different forms of politics in Muslim majority countries. The book moves beyond Eurocentric and positivist approaches to political formations. Instead, it sees these formations as evolving in specific temporalities and contexts.
Gathering scholars in sociology, political science, anthropology, cultural studies, and social and legal history, the volume takes a decolonial approach to stimulate debate on the parallels and differences between various Islamic movements and their claims on the past, present and future. Through a comparative approach that spans scholarship from Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Iran, Syria, Pakistan, India and China, readers gain a clearer understanding of the ways that contemporary Muslim societies understand, renegotiate and reconfigure the presumed tension between imagination and reality.
With a rise in new forms of identity politics, right and left populisms, and a myriad of global crises, this volume is a timely exploration of how contemporary Islamic politics are bound to other socio-political imaginaries: nationalism, masculinity and revolution.
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Poetics and Politics of Islamic Imaginaries
Series: Global Prosperity in Thought and Practice
Publication date: October 1, 2026
Open Access PDF ISBN: 9781806551699
Paperback ISBN: 9781806551682
Hardback ISBN: 9781806551675
Trim size (hardback): 23.4cm x 15.6cm
Trim size (paperback): 23.4cm x 15.6cm
Poetics and Politics of Islamic Imaginaries shows how narratives of culture, masculinist restoration and revolutionary spirit drive, connect and reinvent different forms of politics in Muslim majority countries. The book moves beyond Eurocentric and positivist approaches to political formations. Instead, it sees these formations as evolving in specific temporalities and contexts.
Gathering scholars in sociology, political science, anthropology, cultural studies, and social and legal history, the volume takes a decolonial approach to stimulate debate on the parallels and differences between various Islamic movements and their claims on the past, present and future. Through a comparative approach that spans scholarship from Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Iran, Syria, Pakistan, India and China, readers gain a clearer understanding of the ways that contemporary Muslim societies understand, renegotiate and reconfigure the presumed tension between imagination and reality.
With a rise in new forms of identity politics, right and left populisms, and a myriad of global crises, this volume is a timely exploration of how contemporary Islamic politics are bound to other socio-political imaginaries: nationalism, masculinity and revolution.
In recent years the centrality of political imaginaries has emerged as a key theme in the comparative study of social and political movements. In this richly detailed and theoretically sophisticated book, leading scholars of Muslim politics bring this same theoretical optic to bear on Islamic movements across a broad expanse of the modern world. They do so while also highlighting the deeply gendered nature of Islamic social imaginaries and nationalist movements today. Engagingly written and of breathtaking importance, the book is a major contribution to the study of Muslim politics, gender and nationalism.
Robert W. Hefner, Professor of Anthropology and Global Studies, Boston University
