aims of political Islam

Question 1

filling vacuum left by demise of Pan-Arabism

Answer 1

Pan-Arabism dissolved as a result of the failure of the UAR amongst other reasons

to an extent, Islamism succeeded - Hamas had majority in Palestinian Legislative Council in 2006

Question 2

political power within individual countries

Answer 2

• Iranian Islamic revolution 1979
• During Iran-Iraq war, most Arab states supported secular, Sunni-dominated Iraq
• only really adopted readily in Iran - even extreme Islamists rely on Western inventions, like the internet

Question 3

politically uniting the Islamic world

Answer 3

although the Iranian revolution had an impact on the spread of Islamic fundamentalism, it didn’t succeed in exporting it to other countries

like Arab nationalism, it threatened conservative monarchies

Question 4

providing health and social care

Answer 4

Hamas, Hezbollah and Muslim Brotherhood offered welfare assistance through funding schools and welfare centres

Question 5

defeating Israel

Answer 5

failure - not successful

one of Al Qaeda’s reasons for their Jihad

Question 6

resisting Western influence

Answer 6

failure - as prompted war on terror

Pan-Islamists believed all west influences should be eliminated