Neo-Calvinism and Pan-Islamism: Kindred Movements Against Liberal Imperialism?

This article brings Abraham Kuyper’s neo-Calvinism into comparison with the pan-Islamic movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Kuyper devoted sustained attention to pan-Islamism in his account of his travels around the Mediterranean, and the article asks whether the two movements—each mobilizing confessional identity in resistance to liberal imperialism—may be understood as kindred phenomena.