Hizb-ut-Tahrir

While discussing contemporary religio-political movements in the Muslim world, academic, media and geo-political attention, has traditionally been focused on the Muslim Brotherhood, Syed Mawdudi, Sayyid Qutb and Imam Khomeini. However, following the emergence of the Taliban and more specifically after 9/11, an entire raft of movements such as al-Qaeda, Hamas, Hizb ut-Tahrir, Hamas, Al-Shabab, Boko Haram and ISIS have come under an intense scrutiny from numerous experts and think tanks. Often statedependent and flagging some specific ideological strata, this contemporary generation of analysts and experts outnumber their erstwhile counterparts from amongst the Sovietologists, besides being the beneficiaries of a globalised social media. Multiple television channels, Internet modalities and certainly the official dependence and even sponsorship of such experts and thinks tanks display a unique feature of globalisation where familiarity with the languages, history, cultures and interaction with the grass-roots are routinely missing, with more recourse to graphs, statistics, verbose terminologies and strategic paradigms. These security-centred reports, books, presentations and specialised papers abound and are a quick tap away from search engines....