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Making Sense of Muslim Fundamentalisms: The Clash Within Islam book cover

1st Edition

Making Sense of Muslim Fundamentalisms The Clash Within Islam

By Nimrod Hurvitz, Eli Alshech Copyright 2020
270 Pages
by Routledge

270 Pages
by Routledge

270 Pages
by Routledge
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Studying Muslim fundamentalisms, this book compares key movements, examining their commonalities, differences, and intricate relations, as well as their achievements and failures. Muslim fundamentalisms have the sympathy of approximately half of the Muslim population in the world. Yet, they are divided among themselves and are in a constant state of controversy. The research dwells on the... Read more

Introduction

Part I: Histories

1. Moderate fundamentalists

2. Militant fundamentalists

Part II: Mobilization

3. Authority and leadership

4. The art and means of persuasion

Part III: Moral order

5. Images of the West

6. Culture wars

7. Women in the public sphere

Concluding observations

Biography

Nimrod Hurvitz teaches at the Department of Middle East Studies at Ben Gurion University of the Negev. His areas of interest are medieval and modern religio-political movements. His publications have appeared in The American Historical Review, and in the Islamic Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law School.

Eli Alshech is a visiting scholar at the Hebrew University and a government consultant. His research focuses on Islamic fundamentalism, Salafi-Jihadism, "Lone wolf" Terrorism, and Cyber Terrorism. His recent publications pertain to the ideological rift within the Salafi-Jihadi camp, and to the way Jihadists build their authority and legitimacy.

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