How would Islamists succeed to sustain their rule in spite of their lack of an Islamic blueprint for governance? I draw on an original fieldwork study conducted in Turkey and Egypt from 2010 to 2013 to advance a theory linking Islamists’ rule sustainability and political leverage vis-à-vis the state establishment. In contrast with post-Islamism, the results contended that Islamists sustain their rule if they have a high political leverage based on the adoption of a three-fold strategy comprising identification, differentiation, and alliance mobilisation. Based on 45 open-ended and semi-structured interviews conducted with members of Turkey’s Justice and Development Party and Egypt’s Freedom and Justice Party, findings significantly hold in authoritarian and hybrid regimes in the Middle East.

尽管缺乏伊斯兰治理蓝图，伊斯兰主义者如何成功地维持他们的统治？我利用 2010 年至 2013 年在土耳其和埃及进行的一项原始实地调查研究，提出了一种将伊斯兰主义者的统治可持续性和政治影响力与国家机构联系起来的理论。与后伊斯兰主义相比，结果认为，如果伊斯兰主义者在采用包括认同、分化和联盟动员三重战略的基础上拥有高政治影响力，他们就可以维持他们的统治。基于对土耳其正义与发展党和埃及自由与正义党成员进行的 45 次开放式和半结构化访谈，调查结果显着适用于中东的专制和混合政权。