The Challenge of Fundamentalism: Political Islam and the New World DisorderLong before the tragic events of September 11, 2001, Islamic fundamentalism was exerting a significant influence in nearly every corner of the world. Bassam Tibi, a widely recognized expert on Islam and Arab culture, offers an important and disquieting analysis of this particular synthesis of religion and politics. A Muslim and descendant of a famous Damascene Islamic scholar family, Tibi sees Islamic fundamentalism as the result of Islam's confrontation with modernity and not only--as it is widely believed--economic adversity. The movement is unprecedented in Islamic history and parallels the inability of Islamic nation-states to integrate into the new world secular order. For this updated edition, Tibi has written a new preface and lengthy introduction addressing Islamic fundamentalism in light of and since September 11. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1998. Long before the tragic events of September 11, 2001, Islamic fundamentalism was exerting a significant influence in nearly every corner of the world. Bassam Tibi, a widely recognized expert on Islam and Arab culture, offers an important and disquieting an |
Contents
A CLASH | |
THREE World Order and the Legacy of Saddam Hussein | |
BETWEEN PEACE AND MILITANCY | |
FOUR The Sociocultural Background and the Exposure | |
BETWEEN PRIVATE RELIGIOSITY AND | |
CONCLUSIONS | |
SIX The Crisis of the NationState Islamic PanArab | |
SEVEN The Fundamentalist Ideology Context and | |
EIGHT The Idea of an Islamic State and the Call for | |
CONCLUSIONS | |
TEN Human Rights in Islam and the West CrossCultural | |
Notes | |
AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO GLOBAL SECULARIZATION? | |
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The Challenge of Fundamentalism: Political Islam and the New World Disorder Bassam Tibi Limited preview - 1998 |
The Challenge of Fundamentalism: Political Islam and the New World Disorder Bassam Tibi Limited preview - 2023 |
The Challenge of Fundamentalism: Political Islam and the New World Disorder Bassam Tibi No preview available - 1998 |
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