Islamic nationalism

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Islamic nationalism - more rarely also Muslim nationalism - is that nationalism in countries shaped by Islam that delimits an existing nation-state from other states with religious motivation or that strives for its own nation-state as a movement. It should be noted, however, that the concept of nation in the Islamic world has little to do with Western tradition, as it is about very different statehoods and therefore also about very different nationalisms.

Less in terms of nation states, but in view of Arabia which is pan-Arabism , a Muslim-nationalist movement. On the other hand, there is no pan-Islamic national movement because the differences are too great: feudal dynastic (e.g. Saudi Arabia , Morocco ) and bourgeois-republican structures ( Turkey , Tunisia ), modern-secular and conservative-religious orientations oppose one another. Only the common cultural basis unites the states in contrast to the " American way of life ".

Historically, Muslim nationalism played a role among the Tatars and Bashkirs in the Russian Empire until the end of the First World War . The Kemalists in Turkey had a strong nationalist orientation.

Today one speaks of Muslim nationalism especially in relation to the states of Pakistan , Iran and Libya . There is a pronounced Muslim nationalist movement in Palestine , Bosnia and the southern Philippines, among others .

literature

  • Werner Ende (Hrsg.): Islam in the present . 5th edition Beck, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-406-53447-3 (EA Munich 1984).
  • Christian Noack: Muslim nationalism in the Russian Empire. Nation-building and national movement among Tatars and Bashkirs, 1861-1917 (Sources and studies on the history of Eastern Europe; Vol. 56). Steiner, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-515-07690-5 (also dissertation, University of Cologne 1999).
  • Reinhard Schulze: Islamic Internationalism in the 20th Century. Studies on the history of the Islamic World League (Social, economis, and political studies of the Middle East; Vol. 41). Brill, Leiden 1990, ISBN 90-04-08286-7 (plus habilitation thesis, University of Bonn 1987).