KARAYİPLER’DE İSLAM’IN SİYASÎ TEZAHÜRLERİ

Year 2022, Volume: 1 Issue: 1, 78 - 106, 29.06.2022

Mürsel Bayram

Abstract

Karayipler, İslam’ın sosyopolitik etkisinin görece sınırlı olduğu bir bölgedir. Bölge devletlerinin çoğunda Müslüman nüfusun toplam nüfusa oranı %1’in altında olup yalnızca üç Karayip devleti (Guyana, Surinam ve Trinidad&Tobago) diğer bölge devletlerine nispetle kayda değer bir Müslüman nüfus oranına sahiptir. Dolayısıyla bu devletlerde Müslümanların siyasî hayata ne ölçüde katıldıkları ve ne yönde etki doğurdukları incelenmeye değer bir konudur. Kolonyalist dönemin mirası olarak çoğunlukla Batı Afrika ve Güney Asya asıllı halklardan oluşan Karayip Müslümanları, azınlık konumunda olmalarına rağmen, darbe teşebbüsünde bulunabilecek ve ülkelerinin İslam dünyası ile yakınlaşmasını teşvik edebilecek kadar güçlü siyasî aktörlerdir. Bu makalede bahse konu siyasî aktivizmin karşılaştırmalı olarak analiz edilmesi amaçlanmaktadır.

Keywords

İslam, Karayipler, Guyana, Surinam, Trinidad ve Tobago

THE POLITICAL MANIFESTATIONS OF ISLAM IN THE CARIBBEAN

Abstract

The sociopolitical role of Islam is relatively limited in the Caribbean, as Muslims make up less than 1 percent of the total population in the region. Only three Caribbean states (Guyana, Suriname and Trinidad&Tobago) have a considerable proportion of Muslim population. Hence, it is worth studying to what extent Muslims participate in political life and in what ways they produce an effect in these states. Notwithstanding their minority status, Caribbean Muslims, who originate mainly from western Africa and southern Asia as a result of colonialism, appear to be such a powerful political actor that they attempted to overthrow the government in one instance and have prompted close ties between the Islamic world and their respective countries. Hence, this paper aims to analyse the mentioned political activism in a comparative way.

Keywords

Islam, Caribbean, Guyana, Suriname, Trinidad &Tobago

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