Islam as a means of articulation of interests. Religious fundamentalism as a kind of legitimization of political leadership

Abstract

Made into a multilevel political-religious system, Islam has become not only a religion but a life style with its mentality of society, the style of thinking. Even initially, at an early stage of formation, politics and religion were inseparable in Islam. Politicization of Islam in history and today is closely linked to its accumulative abilities.
Discussion on the ways of development and the historical choice of the Islamic world between the national and religious idea of the creation of community, born in the 19-th century, remains valid today. Varieties of interpretations of Islam are actively used by various political forces in the name of the articulation of their own interests.
The 2 nd half of the 20-th century formed the demonstrational effect of the coming to power of the political movements of Islam as peaceful, and by force. Against the background of rutinization of the nationalism authority and the emerged social rejection of the extreme fundamental manifestations of Islam a kind of symbiotic currents of political Islam with a new ideology are born in the last decades of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century , attempting to synthesize the doctrine of nationalism with the concept of Islamic democracy.