Apart from Muslim intellectuals, Western academics have spent a significant amount of time on these questions, with a multitude of articles and volumes examining the compatibility of Islam and democracy. The publication of The Clash of Civilizations by American scholar Samuel Huntington, in which he presented a controversial argument about a cultural divide and clash between the Islamic world and the West, pushed the debate even further.
The debate has gained momentum since the last decade of the twentieth century, especially after the collapse of the former Soviet Union and the subsequent transition of socialist states in Eastern Europe and other authoritarian states in Asia and Latin America to democracy. The experiential analysis in the study also found that besides playing the role of a pacifist to reconcile democratic ideals and Islamic ideals to fill the widening lacuna between the Orients (particularly Islam) and the Occidents, Benazir Bhutto projects her own political ideologies secularism, socialism and liberal feminism.Is authoritarianism intrinsic to Islam? Is Islam incompatible with democracy? These questions are frequently debated in the context of the study of the relationship between the Western and Islamic civilization. Among processes, material processes out number all other processes which indicates she is an action lady and believes in concrete action. Employment of maximum transitivity elements signifies author’s encyclopedic range concerning the ideological conflict between Islam and the West. Moreover, maximum types of processes, participants and circumstances have been used in the text. Transitivity analysis of the text discovered 128 complex clauses and 278 simplex clauses. In order to achieve the aimed targets, transitivity, a framework of SFL has been inducted to conduct the transitivity analysis of the selected text extracts. The objective of the research is to locate the frequency indices of the processes, participants and circumstances and how among various existing political ideologies Benazir Bhutto incorporates her own political ideologies.
In her book, she strives to authenticate her thesis that democracy and Islam are mutually inclusive. The present study is an endeavor to deconstruct political ideologies of Benazir Bhutto in her posthumous write up Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy and the West from the perspective of SFL (Systemic Functional Linguistics). They own potential meanings and ideologies. Lexical items employed in a talk or text are not impartial. Professor, Department of English, University of Azad Jammu & Kashmir, Muzaffarabad, AJ&K, Pakistanĭemocracy, Ideology, Islam, SFG, Transitivity, West Abstract Department of English, University of Azad Jammu & Kashmir, Muzaffarabad, AJ&K, Pakistan
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