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Islamism in the Post-Arab Spring world Istanbul Think-House (IDE), a self-supported independent research center that promotes the free circulation of ideas, analyzed “Islamism in the Post-Arab Spring World” during its October 24-26, 2014, international conference.
In his opening remarks on Friday morning, conference co-chair and IDE’s general coordinator Halil Ibrahim Yenigun (Istanbul Commerce University) introduced IDE and explained its vision of (1) producing and circulating ideas without depending on big capital and political power centers and (2) concen trating solely on the good of humanity, especially that of the subaltern.
William Quandt (University of Virginia) launched the afternoon panel, “Current Challenges for Islamism Worldwide,” by asking: “Does Obama have a strategy for dealing with the Islamic State (IS)?” He analyzed Obama’s state ments on the absence of such a strategy during the previous month and indi cated possible ways of dealing with the Syrian crisis.
Neslihan Çevik (University of Virginia) contrasted Islamism with the Muslimism that has emerged as a recent socio logical phenomenon, one that is neither radical nor liberal but which never theless enabled the AKP’s rise to power.
Emrah Kekilli (Istanbul Bilgi University) discussed Libyan Islamism’s long-term survival strategies under Muammar al-Qaddafi and underlined how many of the significant political actors who had returned after the revolution were able to mobilize large seg ments of society.
Muqtedar Khan (University of Delaware) presented the Saturday evening keynote address: “The Future of Islamism and the Demand for the Islamic State after the Arab Spring.