The Challenge of Fundamentalism: Political Islam and the New World Disorder
Author(s): Bassam Tibi
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 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.
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- : University of California Press
- : University of California Press
- : 0.471736
- : 01 August 1998
- : 1 Inches X 6 Inches X 9 Inches
- : books
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- : Bassam Tibi
- : Hardback
- : English
- : very good
- : 256