The challenge of fundamentalism: political Islam and the new world disorder/

Tibi, Bassam.

The challenge of fundamentalism: political Islam and the new world disorder/ Bassam Tibi. - London: University of California Press, 1998. - 262 p. ; 23 cm. - Comparative studies in religion and society. .

The context: globalization, fragmentation, and disorder --
The study of Islamic fundamentalism and the scope of the inquiry --
World Order and the legacy of Saddam Hussein --
The sociocultural background and the exposure to cultural modernity --
Cultural fragmentation, the decline in consensus, and the diffusion of power in world politics --
The crisis of the Nation-State: Islamic, Pan-Arab, ethnic, and sectarian identities in conflict --
The fundamentalist ideology: context and the textual sources --
The idea of an Islamic State and the call for the implementation of the Sahri'a/Divine Law --
Democracy and democratization in Islam: an alternative to fundmentalism --
Human rights in Islam and the West: cross-cultural foundations of shared values.

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