What is it about?
Jamaat-e-Islami (or Jamaat) has been so relevant and significant in Bangladesh politics that scholars describe them as ‘kingmakers’. Since its inception in British India in 1941, Bangladesh Jamaat has been actively mobilizing people, organizing and participating in sociopolitical movements while attempting to reorganize and reshape the sociopolitical and cultural landscape of Bangladesh. While the complex local and global geopolitics and their impacts on Jamaat to the extent of facing an existential threat were clear, Jamaat leadership failed to both comprehend and apprehend them. As the largest and the most influential Islamist party in Bangladesh, Jamaat has become the worst victim in its history, and hence faced a great dilemma as well as an existential crisis. The contributory efforts and private initiatives by Jamaat need to be protected, sustained and further advanced broadly for the sake of Bangladesh’s interests and future development, which can be a significant source of sociopolitical cohesion and peaceful coexistence of the Bangladeshi people.
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Why is it important?
Argues that Jamaat and other forces including secular and other non-secular ones have the room to peacefully coexist.
Perspectives
Concluding remarks of the book.
Dr. Md Nazrul Islam
Shahjalal University of Science and Technology
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This page is a summary of: Jamaat and Bangladesh, October 2023, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.4324/9781003310679-11.
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