Anti-colonial connectivity between Islamicate movements in the Middle East and South Asia: the Muslim Brotherhood and Jamati Islam

Gani, Jasmine K. ORCID: 0000-0002-8218-1807 (2022) Anti-colonial connectivity between Islamicate movements in the Middle East and South Asia: the Muslim Brotherhood and Jamati Islam. Postcolonial Studies, 26 (1). pp. 55-76. ISSN 1368-8790

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Abstract

With almost every part of the Muslim world having suffered from European colonisation, the roles and relations of Islamicate movements in anti-colonial history cannot be ignored. And yet,despite intellectual overlaps, mutual opposition to British colonialism, and a shared spiritual worldview, little has been written within postcolonial studies on the historical relationship between the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and Jamati Islam in South Asia. I explore the link between both movements as an example of anti-colonial connectivity that transcended territory.Though disconnected by geography and language, both groups were nevertheless tied by the deep connection of a shared belief system and the common experience of British imperialism. In particular, I argue their theology was not incidental but fundamental to both their anti-colonialism and their connectivity.I consider how that connectivity and solidarity evolved through time and shifting locations, reflecting the rich inheritance not just of post-colonies, but also of diasporic communities in the imperial metropole, inhabiting liminal spaces of unbelonging who often found community via these transnational movements. The purpose of the article is a recovery of history and a recognition of(at times overlooked) anti-colonial struggles and solidarities that do not fit neatly within disciplinary postcolonial norms.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	© 2024 The Author
Divisions:	LSE
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion
Date Deposited:	14 Oct 2024 15:54
Last Modified:	17 Oct 2024 18:20
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/125759

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