Overview
- Seeks to investigate not only the causes of radicalization but also how radicalization has unfolded
- Focuses on the Islamic State
- Looks at both local and global factors
Part of the book series: Critical Studies of the Asia-Pacific (CSAP)
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This book seeks to investigate not only the causes of radicalization but also how radicalization has unfolded since 2009 based on an exhaustive review of the relevant literature and two stints of fieldwork in Bangladesh involving 71 in depth interviews of highly credentialed individuals. This book looks at both local and global factors that have served to provoke young Bangladeshis, many of whom are from relatively well-educated backgrounds, to become religiously belligerent and eventually to turn into terrorists. Ideology, it is argued, plays a pivotal role in the radicalization process, and justifies violence. Most importantly, ideology proffers solutions to the micro and macrocauses of commonly identifiable youth disaffection. This book mainly focuses on the Islamic State and Al Qaeda’s exploitation of religious beliefs and their construction of a mobilizing, apocalyptic narrative that strikes a chord with the young, middle-class Muslims. Both organizations target them for recruitment. The book ends by proffering what is called a ‘Pyramid Root Cause model,’ which attempts to tie all the causative variables of radicalization into a connected explanation of what has been happening in Bangladesh over the last decade. This book is of interest to scholars of political Islam, international politics, and security studies, including terrorism and the politics of South Asia.
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Shafi Md Mostofa is an assistant professor of World Religions and Culture at Dhaka University’s Faculty of Arts and an adjunct lecturer of the University of New England, Australia.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Islamist Militancy in Bangladesh
Book Subtitle: A Pyramid Root Cause Model
Authors: Shafi Md Mostofa
Series Title: Critical Studies of the Asia-Pacific
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79171-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-79170-4Published: 02 September 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-79173-5Published: 03 September 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-79171-1Published: 01 September 2021
Series ISSN: 2662-222X
Series E-ISSN: 2662-2238
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 198
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: Asian Politics, International Security Studies, Terrorism and Political Violence, Political Sociology