The Best of Analysis: Political Islam
Analysis examines the ideas and forces which shape the world we live in - this collection of programmes explores political Islam.
How Islam Got Political—Analysis
Frank Gardner traces the rise of political Islam over the last century.
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The Deobandis
Owen Bennett Jones investigates the UK's biggest Islamic group and asks what they believe
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Sheikh Rachid Ghannouchi—Analysis
Profile of Rachid Ghannouchi, one of the world's most influential Islamist thinkers.
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The Alawis—Analysis
Owen Bennett Jones looks at Syria's Alawis, the sect to which President Assad belongs.
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What is Wahhabism?—Analysis
Is the Saudi-style ultra-conservative branch of Islam the ideological engine of extremism?
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The Idea of the Caliphate
How has the concept of an Islamic caliphate evolved and been expressed through history?
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Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood: Why Did They Fail?—Analysis
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood won at the polls but failed to keep power. What went wrong?
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The Jihadi Spring—Analysis
Is al-Qaeda the real beneficiary of the multiple failures of the Arab revolutions?
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Who Are The Taliban?—Analysis
Edward Stourton discovers what a negotiated peace with the Taliban would really mean.
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Turkey: Staying Secular Insha'Allah—Analysis
Edward Stourton investigates Turkish politics and the nation's place in the world.
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Ayatollogy—Analysis
Ed Stourton asks if a battle over theology could bring an end to Iran's Islamic Republic.
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Al Qaeda's Enemy Within—Analysis
Frank Gardner talks to former allies of Osama bin Laden who have turned against him.
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Conservative Muslims, Liberal Britain—Analysis
David Goodhart on liberal Britain's relationship with socially conservative Muslims.
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Preserving Pakistan—Analysis
Owen Bennett-Jones investigates Pakistan's Islamic radicals.
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Hezbollah—Analysis
Owen Bennett-Jones asks, what exactly is the Lebanese Shia movement Hezbollah?
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Egypt's New Islamists—Analysis
Edward Stourton asks if the Egyptian revolution spells the end of old-style Islamism.
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