Is This the End of Political Islam?

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After decades of expanding influence across the Middle East and North Africa, Islamic political movements face their most significant reckoning yet. Scholars point to electoral losses in Turkey, declining public support in Egypt and Iraq, and generational shifts away from Islamist parties as signs the movement's moment may be fading. Yet the question of what replaces it, and whether secular authoritarianism or genuine pluralism emerges, remains unsettled. The Islamist wave transformed regional politics from the 1980s onward; its potential decline reshapes questions about governance, identity, and democracy across the Muslim world.