![Islam & Anarchism: Relationships & Resonances](https://politicaltheology.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/WhatsApp-Image-2022-06-13-at-9.02.17-AM-600x450.jpeg)
Discourses around Muslims and Islām often lapse into a false dichotomy of Orientalist/Fundamentalist tropes. A popular reimagining of Islām is desperately needed and anarchist political philosophical traditions offer the most towards this pursuit. By constructing a decolonial and abolitionist, non-authoritarian and non-capitalist Islāmic anarchism, Islam and Anarchism philosophically and theologically challenges authoritarian and capitalist inequalities in the entwined imperial context of so-called post-colonial societies like Egypt, and settler-colonial societies (the U.S./Canada) that never underwent decolonization and are symbolically, historically, and materially interrelated.
![Between old and new gods](https://politicaltheology.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Second-Missionary-Baptist-Church-Jacksonville-Florida-600x427.jpeg)
For the left to prevail in the war between old and new gods, we need not only prophetic discourse, but forms of mass organization capable of cohering a social bloc. In this work, religion, understood not as prophecy but as missionary work, remains a crucial resource.