Описание: The slyest, and therefore smartest, assessment of Islamic fundamentalism currently available.--International Journal of Middle East Studies
A very careful and thoughtful study of various trends in contemporary Arab Islamic fundamentalism.--Journal of Palestine Studies
Full of innovative views and ideas about how to read various texts of Islamic fundamentalism. One concludes from it that radicals and moderates are not clear-cut categories for a classification of Islamic fundamentalists.--Middle East Studies Association Bulletin
This book is recommended to all those interested in overcoming conventional and simplified views of the political discourse of Islamism.--Middle East Journal
Highly recommended to academic and public libraries that aim to keep abreast of pressing foreign policy issues involving religion and culture.--Choice
Basing his argument largely on Arabic documents, Ahmad Moussalli analyzes the basic concerns of fundamentalism--epistemology, knowledge, philosophy, modernity, science, and politics. Redefining the bases and scope of modern Islamic thought, he suggests that Islamic fundamentalism might prove to be a liberating theology for the modern Islamic world.
