Introduction: Towards Popular Islamism

Noorhaidi Hasan, - (2018) Introduction: Towards Popular Islamism. In: Islamic Literatures of The Millennials: Transmission, Appropriation, and Contestation. UIN Sunan Kalijaga Yogyakarta Graduate Department – PusPIDep UNDP – Convey Indonesia – PPIM UIN Jakarta PPIM UIN Jakarta - UIN Sunan Kalijaga Yogyakarta Graduate Department, Jakarta, pp. 1-19. ISBN 978-623-9459-4-7

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One of the ways to read the dynamic and shift in Islamism is to see the map of millennial generation’s Islamic literatures. This approach is important since many scholars are only concerned with the ideological dynamic of Islamic movement, thus ignoring the more fundamental thing regarding the factors that constitute that ideology. The role of Islamic literatures in the diffusion of Islamism among the millennials, particularly college and high school students, cannot be ignored in this context. In general, the Islamist ideology infiltrates through religious books and literatures used in high school, whether in the class or extracurricular activities. In extracurricular activities, Islamic Mentoring in Rohis for example, the idea of the supremacy of caliphate and sharia receives more allocation, by referring to books written by prominent Islamist thinkers such as Hasan al-Banna, Abul A’la al-Maududi, Sayyid Qutb, Taqiy al-Din al-Nabhani, Ali Syariati, ‘Abd al-Aziz bin Baz, and Muhammad Salih al-Uthaimin. The same is also true in campuses, where Islamist ideology spreads through books read by students, especially in da’wah activities and other kinds of Islamic activities, such as halaqah and daurah

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