This book conceptualizes the Politics of Bangladesh through an Islamic concept called Ummah or the global brotherhood of Muslims.
He has published widely in academic journals and co-edited Radicalization in South Asia published in 2019..
He is also an adjunct fellow at the Humanitarian and Development Research Initiative in University of Western Sydney, Australia.
About the Author Mubashar Hasan is a Research Fellow at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo.
The reason behind this logic of Bangladeshi Politics is formed, contained and expanded by ummah.
The purely \'rational\' domain of Politics in Bangladesh is long lost, and political Islam sets the framework for Politics in the country.
There are only Islamic parties, which are more or less Islamic.
The book rejects the long standing scholarly claim of religious-secular distinction in Bangladeshi Politics and argues that with most Muslim-dominated states, there are no major secular parties in Bangladesh.
By exploring the effects of Ummah in Bangladeshi politics, this book shows how major political parties have mainstreamed political Islam in the country.
It demonstrates that, against the backdrop of geopolitics, capitalism and free flow of ideas, localization of this global religious concept at individual level, institutional level, major party platforms and state has cemented the current political condition in Bangladesh in which religiosity, religious intolerance, Islamization and extremism take place.
This book conceptualizes the Politics of Bangladesh through an Islamic concept called Ummah or the global brotherhood of Muslims
