Radical muslim politics from comparative perspective: theological deprivation as the major source of hizb ut- tahrir’s influence

This study is a comparative qualitative analysis of radical Muslim politics. It focuses on the transnational anti-systemic and anti-democracy Hizb ut-Tahrir (hereinafter referred to as HT) that aims to establish a global Muslim state called Caliphate by non-violence means. HT takes advantage of socio-economic and political deprivations, marginalization, Islamophobia, social exclusion, authoritarian political structures, repression, political opportunity structures, and Western foreign policies towards the Muslim world. But our analysis of three countries (Britain, Uzbekistan and Egypt) has shown that these factors alone cannot explain why HT is influential in some countries but not in some others where these disadvantages as far as the Muslim youth are concerned also exist. Our comparative analysis of the three cases suggests that theological deprivation is the major factor that paves the way for radicalization of the Muslim youth when socio-economic and political deprivations already exist.

Muslim Politics ,

Radicalism ,

Hizb ut-Tahrir ,

Deprivation ,

Britain ,

Uzbekistan ,

Egypt ,