Political Islam at the Crossroads: Resilience and Adaptation in the Contemporary Middle East

A comparative analysis of Islamist groups’ ideological positioning toward nation-state, secularism, and democracy across different countries in the MENA region. Authoritarian reassertion following the Arab uprisings in the Middle East has restrained Islamists’ political participation and challenged their survival as both opposition groups and rulers.In light of national sociopolitical variations across the region, this book explores Islamists’ means of adaptation and resilience in the face of this political exclusion, unpacking Islamists’ sociopolitical persistence and ideological sustainability. In doing so this book sheds light on the following questions: How did Islamists adapt to contextual restrictions in terms of repression and stigmatization?How did the Arab uprisings impact their internal debates, ideological revisions, and reconsideration of tools of action?Individual chapters explore similarities and divergences among Islamist groups and parties in terms of ideological affili