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Nationalist Hegemony Over Islamist Dreams in I ran and P akistan: Who Were S hariati and M aududi?
Author(s) -
Paşaoğlu Mehmet Talha
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
asian politics and policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.193
H-Index - 12
eISSN - 1943-0787
pISSN - 1943-0779
DOI - 10.1111/aspp.12001
Subject(s) - nationalism , hegemony , politics , independence (probability theory) , ideology , order (exchange) , islam , political science , religious studies , sociology , theology , law , philosophy , economics , statistics , mathematics , finance
This article examines two prominent ideologues, A li S hariati of I ran and M aulana M aududi of P akistan, in order to determine their influence on national politics in the second half of the 20th century. Were they only fundamental actors of political Islam in their societies, or did they also have a significant impact on the reformation of I ranian and P akistani nationalism? If they did, who exactly were S hariati and M aududi, and what are their legacies? In order to answer these questions, this article focuses on the I ranian experience with nationalism before and after the I ranian R evolution (1979) and P akistani nationalism embedded with Islamism from independence (1947) until the end of the 1980s. In light of R anajit G uha's concept of hegemony, this article brings to the foreground the possibility of alternative ways of thinking and belonging.