{"id":1343,"date":"2026-07-06T15:40:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T15:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/?p=1343"},"modified":"2026-09-06T07:02:43","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T07:02:43","slug":"the-end-of-political-islam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/the-end-of-political-islam\/","title":{"rendered":"The End of Political Islam"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>and What Comes Next? \u00a0By Raghu Kondori in The Times of Israel<!--more--><\/h2>\n<p>Across the Middle East, ideological systems that once appeared transformative are entering a more structural phase of strain. The language of revolution and civilizational revival remains present in political discourse, but its capacity to organize governance and sustain legitimacy is increasingly tested by economic pressures, institutional constraints, and shifting social expectations.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.timesofisrael.com\/washingtons-new-middle-east-playbook\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Times of Israel<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>and What Comes Next? \u00a0By Raghu Kondori in The Times of Israel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1344,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,15,14,236,271],"class_list":["post-1343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-essay","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-middle-east","tag-political-islam","tag-the-times-of-israel"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/RK-TOI.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1343"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1547,"href":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343\/revisions\/1547"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}