Islamic Fundamentalism
Aḥmad Mawṣililī · 1998
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After the resurgence of Islamic activism in recent decades, Islamic fundamentalist groups today seem set to maintain their dominant position across a range of Middle and Near Eastern regimes. In this book, a range of leading Middle East academics come together to challenge and correct theoretical and practical misconceptions about Islamic movements. The result is a volume which questions the process of abstraction -- which leads to the creation of the myth of extremism – and offers an account of Islamic fundamentalist thought and movements that places them within their international, regional and local context. In Part I the contributors examine the theoretical, philosophical and political foundations of fundamentalist discourses and the construction of fundamentalist ideologies; in addition they investigate the tools used to study Islamic movements. Part II provides detailed case studies of developments in Algeria, Lebanon, the Occupied Territories, Saudi Arabia and Egypt. These in-depth chapters analyse the causes of the fundamentalist movements' successes and failures.
Book details
- Year
- 1998
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Ithaca Press
- Editions
- 1
- Pages
- 400
- ISBN
- 9780863722325
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