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Islamic fundamentalism has been defined as a revivalist and reform movement of Muslims who aim to return to the founding scriptures of Islam.
The fundamentalists' goal is to end the Muslim world's state of dependency by eradicating Western and Soviet influence. This is the aspect of the movement that is ultimately threatening to Western. interests. Yet the West has not paid enough attention to this aspect of the fundamentalist movement.
by Islam. Islamism or Islamic fundamentalism is an umbrella term for a wide range of dis courses and activism that tends to and moves from a high level of moderate pluralism, and thus inclusive democracy, to extreme radicalism, intolerant unitarianism, and thus exclusive majority rule.
As with many who write about controversial topics, the de-fenders of Islamic fundamentalism seek the high ground by defining the terms from their perspective. This chapter explores various scholarly and intellectual perspectives of Islam. This is a major undertaking due to the volume of resources published since 9/11.
Islamic fundamentalism, expression of Islam that stresses strict and literal adherence to a set of basic principles. As with other religions, multiple fundamentalist movements have taken form throughout Islamic history, the earliest of which may have been the Kharijites of the 7th century.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
14 dic 2009 · Just as there are numerous versions of democracy (which is why it is called a “contested concept”), the debate on Islam and democracy has polarized participants within Muslim communities and scholarly communities in equal measure.
The third subgroup in the first paradigm is made up of Islamic fun-damentalists themselves. According to Islamic fundamentalists, Islamic government is superior to democ-racy, and divine law is superior to the man-made laws of the Western legislatures.
