Mura, Andrea
(2012).
| URL: | http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/135693... |
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| DOI (Digital Object Identifier) Link: | http://doi.org/10.1080/13569317.2012.644986 |
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Abstract
This article inquires into the ideological vision of Hasan al-Banna (1906-1949), one of the most influential figures of Islamist thought. By assuming a discourse theory perspective, I argue that al-Banna's Islamist discourse was genealogically caught between a traditional pan-Islamic vocation and modern ways of articulating political discourse, such as nationalism and Arab nationalism. Following the traumatic encounter between tradition and modernity that colonialism enacted, al-Banna increasingly integrated and valourized modern national `signifiers', downplaying early universalistic ethos. This denoted a growing reliance on the language of modernity over the language of tradition, though such reliance was instrumental to al-Banna's anti-imperialist political project, entailing the very preservation of tradition as a moderator principle in the appropriation of modernity.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Copyright Holders: | 2012 Taylor & Francis |
| ISSN: | 1469-9613 |
| Keywords: | Islam |
| Academic Unit/Department: | Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Politics, Economics, Development, Geography Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) |
| Interdisciplinary Research Centre: | Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance (CCIG) |
| Item ID: | 35312 |
| Depositing User: | Andrea Mura |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Nov 2012 16:33 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2016 14:23 |
| URI: | http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/35312 |
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