The Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami (BJI) is the largest Islamist Party in Bangladesh. It was founded in 1941 in British-India, by Maulana Mawdudi, a prominent South Asian Islamist leader. The BJI has undergone political vicissitudes during its eight-decade-long political history. The most notable political success of the Party was to have a couple of cabinet positions as a coalition partner in the Nationalist–Islamist Government between 2001 and 2006. Since the beginning of the 2010s, the Party has been in severe crisis: most of its national leaders were convicted of war crimes and put to death in the period 2011–2016. This article aims to examine the BJI’s growth and development and role in political Islam in Bangladesh. It also explores the challenges to, and responses of, the Party and their sociopolitical implications for the future of political Islam in Bangladesh. The methodology of the article is a critical analysis based on an exhaustive review of published secondary literature about the Party. The author argues that the BJI has generated a massive Islamic movement and made an enormous contribution to political Islam in Bangladesh. Yet it has failed to reform its almost-century-old organizational structure and modus operandi and effectively respond to the changed social and political contexts of Bangladesh, which has affected its organizational mobility and success.

孟加拉国伊斯兰大会党（BJI）是孟加拉国最大的伊斯兰党。它于 1941 年由著名的南亚伊斯兰主义领袖毛拉纳·莫杜迪 (Maulana Mawdudi) 在英属印度创立。BJI在其长达八年的政治历史中经历了政治变迁。该党最显着的政治成功是在 2001 年至 2006 年期间担任了几个内阁职位，作为国民党 - 伊斯兰主义政府的联盟伙伴。 自 2010 年代初以来，该党一直处于严重危机：其大部分国家2011 年至 2016 年期间，领导人被判犯有战争罪并被处死。本文旨在研究 BJI 的成长和发展以及在孟加拉国政治伊斯兰教中的作用。它还探讨了面临的挑战和回应，党及其对孟加拉国政治伊斯兰未来的社会政治影响。这篇文章的方法论是基于对已发表的关于党的二级文献的详尽审查的批判性分析。作者认为，BJI引发了大规模的伊斯兰运动，并为孟加拉的政治伊斯兰做出了巨大贡献。然而，它未能改革其近百年历史的组织结构和作案手法并有效应对孟加拉国变化的社会和政治环境，这影响了其组织的流动性和成功。