Including contributions from leading scholars from Algeria, France, Germany, India and the United States this book traces the rise and turn to moderation of the New Cultural Identitarian Political Movements, often labelled in the West as fundamentalists. Arguing that culturally based ideologies are often the instruments, rather than the motivating force though which segments of a rising middle strata challenge entrenched elites the expert contributors trace the rise of these movements to changes in their respective countries' political economy and class structures. This approach explains why, as a result of an ongoing contestation and recreation of bourgeois values, the more powerful of these movements then tend towards moderation. As Western countries realise the need to engage with the more moderate wings of fundamentalist political groups their rationale and aims become of increasing importance and so academics, decision-makers and business people interested in South Asia and the Muslim world will find this an invaluable account.

Chapter 1 Introduction: New Cultural-Identitarian Political Movements in South Asia, the Middle East and Northern Africa, Rachid Ouaissa, Sebastian Schwecke; Part I Section I; Chapter 1a Algeria's Islamists in Times of Political Change - An Exceptional Case?, Rachid Ouaissa; Chapter 2 The Trivialisation of Hindu Nationalism and the Reconfiguration of the Indian Bourgeoisie, Sebastian Schwecke; Part II Section II; Chapter 3 Globalisation and Islamic Radicalism in the Arab Gulf Region, Mary Ann Tétreault; Chapter 4 The Economic Ideology of Hasan al-Banna and the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, Ivesa Lübben; Chapter 5 The AKP or the Success of a Hybrid, Gérard Groc; Chapter 6 Similarities and Differences in the Strategies and Programmes of the BJP and the Congress in India, Randhir B. Jain; Chapter 7 Power Games or Programmatic Evolution in the BJP, Klaus Julian Voll; Part III Section III; Chapter 8 Middle Classes and New Cultural-Identitarian Political Movements: Perspectives, Hartmut Elsenhans; Chapter 9 How to Build a Viable Economic Policy on Islamic Foundations: The Case of the MSP Party, Algeria, Abdelkrim Dahmen; Chapter 10 The Bharatiya Janata Party: Identitarianism and Governance Agenda, Rajvir Sharma; Part IV Section IV; Chapter 11 Rivalry, Failure of the Secular Nationalists, Geography, History: Embedding the Rising New Cultural-Identitarian Movements in Africa and Asia in the Emerging Multipolar System*, Hartmut Elsenhans;