Ali Riaz: Lived Islam & Islamism in BangladeshDieter Reinhardt

ASIEN – Nr. 149 (2018) pp. 137–39

Dhaka: Prothoma Prokashan, 2017. 276 S., 6000 TK

There are two extreme schools of thought analysing the process of “islamisation” in Muslim countries: one evaluates it as a result of a socio-cultural emancipation from the Western capitalistic culture and paternalism; the opposite states that islamisation is dominated by “islamism” which has ideological and social structures similar to European fascism. The majority of scholars are avoiding these extremes by differentiating between types of nonviolent moderate Islam and militant/terroristic islamism…