Beyond Islamist Movements: Religion and Power in Dynamic Socio-Political Fields.

十年前，伊斯兰主义者似乎将主导中东政治。自那以后，在选举和军事上的失败再次引发了人们对伊斯兰主义长期政治持久性的质疑，更广泛地说，也引发了人们对伊斯兰教在政治中的角色的质疑。学者们通常通过对个别伊斯兰运动的研究来探讨这些问题。然而，以运动为中心的方法一直难以揭示伊斯兰政治行为者的不同领域，以及宗教概念在政治中发挥的动态作用，包括没有明确伊斯兰倾向的行为者。作为回应，这项研究提出了这样一个问题：在没有占主导地位的伊斯兰运动的情况下，伊斯兰思想、价值观和概念跨越社会政治界限保留了什么政治意义？它探讨了伊斯兰概念受到争议的主题领域，并提出了一个创新的概念框架，其中伊斯兰思想提供了探索宗教在政治中的作用的镜头。这一框架引起了人们对不同政治行为者对相同宗教概念的竞争方式的关注，包括在公开的“世俗”空间，并将为围绕伊斯兰政治的长期可行性和不同伊斯兰政治行为者领域的未来的次要问题提供回应。本研究的重点是阿尔及利亚和(逊尼派阿拉伯)伊拉克的案例研究。遴选标准包括经验证据表明，在没有占主导地位的逊尼派伊斯兰演员的情况下，他们对宗教高度虔诚，对伊斯兰主义的研究相对匮乏。这项研究将采用以话语和内容分析为中心的定性研究方法，并计划包括在阿尔及利亚和伊拉克进行一年的实地考察。

A decade ago, Islamists appeared set to dominate Middle East politics. Electoral and military defeats since then have generated renewed questions about Islamism's long-term political durability and, more broadly, about Islam's role in politics. Scholars have typically approached these questions through the study of individual Islamist movements. However, movement-centric approaches have struggled to shed light on diverse fields of Islamic political actors and the dynamic role religious concepts play in politics, including amongst actors with no explicit Islamic leaning. In response, this research poses the question 'What political significance do Islamic ideas, values, and concepts retain across socio-political lines in the absence of dominant Islamist movements?'. It explores thematic areas in which Islamic concepts have been contested and proposes an innovative conceptual framework in which Islamic ideas provide the lens through which to explore the role of religion in politics. This framework draws attention to ways in which diverse political actors contest the same religious concepts, including in overtly 'secular' spaces, and will inform responses to sub-questions surrounding the long-term viability of Islamist politics and future of a heterogeneous field of Islamic political actors. This research focuses on the case studies of Algeria and (Sunni Arab) Iraq. Selection criteria included empirical evidence of high religiosity in the absence of a dominant Sunni Islamist actor and a relative paucity of scholarship on Islamism. The research will adopt a qualitative research method centred on discourse and content analysis and plans to include a year of fieldwork in Algeria and Iraq.