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Globalised Islam - The Search for a New Ummah (Paperback)
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Globalised Islam - The Search for a New Ummah (Paperback)
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Investigates the emerging phenomenon of militant fundamentalist
Islam of a global nature and without links to a particular country
or culture. Olivier Roy investigates here the emergence of a
militant 'de-territorialised' Islam that has fewer and fewer links
to any particular country and/or culture. His main contention is
that contemporary Islamic fundamentalism is largely a consequence
of, and a factor contributing to, globalisation. Roy argues that
mainstream Islamist movements in the Muslim world have become
'Islamo-nationalist', recasting their political action within a
national framework (e.g. Islamic Iran, the Hamas of Palestine, the
Hezbullah of Lebanon), thereby relinquishing their internationalist
agenda.Hence a schism has emerged between 'political Islam' and the
modern, uprooted militants who strive to establish an imaginary
'Ummah which is not embedded in any particular society or
territory. A detailed comparison of these transnational movements,
whether peaceful like Tabligh Jamaat and the Islamic brotherhoods
or violent like Osama bin Laden, forms the core of this book. In
parallel with this 'deterritorialisation', new forms of 'Western
Islam' have put down strong roots.For the first time in history, a
huge Muslim population has come voluntarily to live in non-Muslim
countries. Among these migrants pristine ethnic cultures are being
eroded and giving way to the recasting of Islam as a mere religion,
one that is less and less embedded in a particular, localised
culture. In this sense the 'Salafist' or neo-fundamentalist
approach, which stresses the return to an authentic Islam, shorn of
local traditions and superstitions, is both a consequence and an
agent of the contemporary process of acculturation and
globalisation. Roy also examines relations between
neo-fundamentalism and globalisation, and the recasting of Islam
into a personal faith. To be a 'true' Muslim in the West is an
individual choice, because it usually means a double break: with an
overly traditional familial environment and with the dominant
secular society.
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