num_pages: 256
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Challenge of Fundamentalism: Political Islam and the New World Disorder
titlecomplete: The Challenge of Fundamentalism: Political Islam and the New World Disorder
genres: History, Islam, Religion, International Relations, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 32
series: Comparative Studies in Religion and Society
publisher: University of California Press