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The Dual Nature of Islamic Fundamentalism (Hardcover, New)
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The Dual Nature of Islamic Fundamentalism (Hardcover, New)
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Fundamentalism fuses religion and politics, and in this compelling
book Johannes J. G. Jansen describes and analyzes from original
Arabic sources the Islamic incarnation of such a fusion. He offers
comparisons with millenarian and revivalist movements in other
religious traditions to suggest a basic structural similarity in
fundamentalism of different creeds. Fundamentalism rejects a core
belief of modernity the separation of religion and politics and so,
according to Jansen, always has an antimodern or reactionary
basis.To explore the logic of contemporary fundamentalist ideology,
Jansen draws on the work of the two dominant Islamic commentators
on religion and politics, Al-Afghani from the nineteenth century
and Ibn Taymiyya from the fourteenth. He examines the theological
bases of Muslim militancy, and in particular the justification of
violent political action, in the more recent writings of Sayyid
Qutb. Further chapters discuss the execution of Shukri Mustafa in
Cairo in 1978, in an unsuccessful attempt by the Egyptian
authorities to intimidate the fundamentalists; inventory
antifundamentlist arguments within contemporary Islam; and examine
fundamentalist attitudes toward other Peoples of the Book,
particularly Jews, and toward women as political agents. Jansen
concludes with an analysis of various attempts within Arab
political culture to deal with Islamic fundamentalism."
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