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The Challenge of Fundamentalism

Political Islam and the New World Disorder

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.

secular human rights. As a first step, the link between Islam and human rights
would need to be restricted to developing a distinctively Islamic underpinning for
an indigenization of these rights in Islamic societies. For the sake of a clear
inquiry it strikes me as imperative that we outline — at the outset of our
discussions — the meaning and historical significance of the terms employed. On
this basis, we may then proceed to ask in what way we might determine a
modern concept of ...