The use of Islam as a political legitimization tool: The Bangladesh experience, 1972-1990
Focusing on Bangladesh between 1972 and 1990, the article analyses why and how the successive regimes, with weak or no political legitimacy at all, consciously used Islam as a legitimization tool. As a corollary to this, the article seeks to demonstrate that the weaker the legitimacy of a regime, th...
| Published in: | Asian journal of political science |
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
1998
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Asian journal of political science
Year: 1998, Volume: 6, Issue: 2, Pages: 98-117 |
| Further subjects: | B
Bangladesh
B Islam B Bangladesh Religion Islam Islamization Internal policy Legitimacy Legitimation von Herrschaft B Religion B Legitimacy B Internal policy B Islamization |
| Summary: | Focusing on Bangladesh between 1972 and 1990, the article analyses why and how the successive regimes, with weak or no political legitimacy at all, consciously used Islam as a legitimization tool. As a corollary to this, the article seeks to demonstrate that the weaker the legitimacy of a regime, the stronger was its propensity to exploit the religious sentiment of the overwhelmingly Muslim majority society of Bangladesh. The article concludes that because of the political risk involved, no future regime, even with a high degree of legitimacy, would attempt to reverse the change towards Islamization that took place during the first two decades of Bangladesh's independence. (AJPS/DÜI) |
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| ISSN: | 0218-5377 |
| Contains: | In: Asian journal of political science
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