Contextualising political Islam

GLOBAL Islamic reform movements have successfully emerged as the most influential force in mobilising the socio-political phenomenon in the Islamic world.

Throughout the 20th century, Islamic movements have prevented the contending ideologies of nationalism and socialism from settling in Muslim societies. These Islamic movements manifested a form of Islamic resurgence in many Muslim countries besieged by traces of Western colonialism that had weakened the ummah (Muslim society as a whole). These movements were also considered the antecedents to a particular contemporary force of political Islam.