After Islamism

The book is considered an important step in developing post-Islamism as an analytical model to explore the transformations of Islamic movements in diverse social contexts, and thus the concept is taken out of its temporal context, which refers to a limited stage in the development of these movements in the post-Cold War era. On the other hand, Middle East sociologist Asif Bayat, whose intellectual and research efforts the book is based on, attempts to present post-Islamism as an alternative social and intellectual project to the dominance of Islamic thought, especially after the apparent intellectual bankruptcy and the deadlock of its historical horizon, despite its ongoing social influence and chronic political conflicts. "It represents an effort to integrate religion with rights, faith with freedom, and Islam with liberation. It is an attempt to overturn the foundational principles of Islamism by emphasizing rights instead of duties, pluralism instead of authority, history instead of rigid texts, and the future instead of the past." In this sense, the book seeks to measure the concept broadly across various social models in the Islamic world, from Indonesia to Morocco, by monitoring the development of Islamism and its interaction with modern Islamic societies.