Militant Islam and Weber's social closure: interrelated secular and religious codes of exclusion.

Vertigans, Stephen

Abstract

Weber's concept of social closure can help to illuminate the social processes that result in the development of militant Muslim groups. Adapting and applying the concept helps to establish the interrelationships between secular processes and Islamification that are designed by the militants to exclude others and usurp governments. These processes include the implementation of secularisation, conversely concessions to religion and the reinvigoration of Islamic concepts that are used as codes of closure to unite followers and ostracize other Muslims and religious denominations.

Citation

VERTIGANS, S. 2007. Militant Islam and Weber's social closure: interrelated secular and religious codes of exclusion. Contemporary Islam [online], 1(3), pages 303-321. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11562-007-0027-6

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Aug 7, 2007
• Online Publication Date: Oct 2, 2007
• Publication Date: Dec 31, 2007
• Deposit Date: Aug 21, 2018
• Publicly Available Date: Aug 21, 2018
• Journal: Contemporary Islam
• Print ISSN: 1872-0218
• Electronic ISSN: 1872-0226
• Publisher: Springer
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 1
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 303-321
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11562-007-0027-6
• Keywords: Exclusion; Militant Islam; Social closure; Status; Takfir; Tawhid; Usurpation
• Public URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10059/3086