POST-ISLAMISM AND THE POLITICS OF EVERYDAY
Keywords:
Islamism, Post-Islamism, jalsa, Youth Clubs, market economy.Abstract
Post-Islamism as an analytical category is seen as a political discourse beyond Islamism. It points towards a shift to religiosity and rights from Islamism which emphasizes on religion and duties. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the interface between Muslim reformist elites and common Muslims in the background of political discourses of Post-Islamism.
Based on my field work conducted in West Bengal on a reformist Sufi sect, I intend to show how their political articulation on identity and ideology underwent shifts in contemporary times vis a vis the ground socio economic situation of common Muslims. Behind these macro level ideological and political shifts lies the broader processes of democratization and secularization of everyday life, which in turn is conditioned by other macro socio economic agents and processes like rise in literacy levels, migration, government policies, role of political parties, media and emergence of a new public sphere as a result of these changes. By focusing on these debates at ground level we find a multiple and discursive articulations of identity and politics among Muslims which is generally portrayed as a monolithic, unchanging and religiously biased community.References
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