The Challenge Of Fundamentalism: Political Islam And The New World Disorder

Author: Bassam Tibi

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Price : $18.00 NZD
ISBN : 9780520088689
Publisher : University of California Press
Imprint : University of California Press
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Weight (g) : 0.471736
Publication date : August 1998
Dimensions : 1 Inches X 6 Inches X 9 Inches
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Author : Bassam Tibi
Series : Comparative Studies in Religion and Society Ser.
Bind : Hardback
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Language : English
Reading Level : very good
Pages : 256
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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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