The BRICS Coexistence and the Islamic World

Could Muslim-majority countries such as Indonesia, Turkey, Iran or Egypt among others become BRICS member-states in the future? This article seeks to reflect on the potential membership of Muslim-majority country within the BRICS, which lacks member from the Islamic world in its explicit struggle to strengthen the role of the developing world in the multiple international political arenas. Muslim-majority countries and their representative institutions are contextualized within the hub of multilateral platforms while the impact of their political, cultural and economic performances are reflected within the processes of pluralization of the global world order in the twenty-first century. While the manifold strategic orientations of the BRICS are highlighted in the analysis, this article stresses the plurality of the Muslim world in general challenging the reductive understanding of its use as compact singular entity. Drawing on hermeneutic interpretation of multiple international phenomena through textual analysis, this article asks how would the membership of a Muslim-majority country impact on BRICS’s global policy orientations, plurality and domestic policies within the theoretical framework of coexistence.