Islamism is a distinctly non-Western modernity that rejects rather than adapts Western discourse.

Evidence

Islamism is, in this context, something to be welcomed, the return of the repressed, a rejection by Muslims of Western domination. Sayyid excoriates those in the Muslim world – be they liberal modernizers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, or the Kemalists of the twentieth – who have tried to learn from the West and so modernize their societies. He also denies the argument that Islamism contains another variant of radical Western discourse, seeing this as another form of hegemonic denial: those who have argued this – Aziz al-Azmeh, Sami Zubaida, myself – come in for spirited attack. Islamism is a discursive construct that rejects the West, a form of modernity that is non-Western. — Fred Halliday, ‘Islamophobia’ Reconsidered, 25

Categorization

• XREF: A rival stance to Halliday’s ‘anti-Muslimism’ and the Runnymede framework — defines Islamism as authentic non-Western modernity rather than a pathology. — connects to: Political Islam is a contemporary construct, not a natural outgrowth of Muslim societies. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 30; Islamism seeks a comprehensive Islamic order opposed to Western secularism. — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 248; Orientalists reframed Islam as a political system rather than a religion. (+1 more)
• QUESTION: How does Sayyid’s celebration of Islamism sit against the Runnymede ‘closed views of Islam’ concern about security treatments of Muslims?

Related

• Islamism is a late entry in a century of anti-Western protest. (similarity 0.90)
• Islamism seeks a comprehensive Islamic order opposed to Western secularism. (similarity 0.84)
• Western discourse reduces all Muslim societies to a single malevolent essence (similarity 0.83)
• Orientalists reframed Islam as a political system rather than a religion. (similarity 0.83)
• Western ideological camps all reduce Islam to a scapegoat (similarity 0.83)
• Islam as a generic category is a modern, reductive translation of heterogeneous historical formations. (similarity 0.82)
• Halliday argues modern hostility targets Muslims as a people, not Islam as a faith. (similarity 0.82)
• Muslim identity is real but never the sole or primary form of social self-understanding. (similarity 0.82)
• Islamic doctrine has justified opposite political programs alike (similarity 0.82)
• Essentialized views of Islam make any Islamic reform a betrayal of the essence (similarity 0.82)
• Western hostility to Islam shifted from theological to political rationales across the centuries (similarity 0.81)
• The reified notion of Islam has hindered rather than helped understanding of Muslim societies (similarity 0.81)
• Islamophobia descends directly from Orientalism’s civilizational divide between Islam and the West (similarity 0.81)
• Political Islam parallels other modern fundamentalisms rather than stemming from Islam’s essence (similarity 0.81)
• Political Islam is a contemporary construct, not a natural outgrowth of Muslim societies. (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Political Islam is a contemporary construct, not a natural outgrowth of Muslim societies. #corroborates (0.88) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 30
• Islamism seeks a comprehensive Islamic order opposed to Western secularism. #expands (0.85) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 248
• Orientalists reframed Islam as a political system rather than a religion. #corroborates (0.72)