Islamic fundamentalism and modernity / by William Montgomery Watt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Watt, W. Montgomery (William Montgomery)

Contributor:

Taylor and Francis eBooks.

Series:

Routledge library editions. Politics of Islam.

Routledge library editions. Politics of Islam

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islam--20th century.

Islam.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

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Other Title:

Islamic Fundamentalism and Modernity (RLE Politics of Islam)

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2013.

System Details:

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Summary:

Islam is a burning topic in modern scholarship and contemporary world affairs. It is a subject poorly understood by Western observers, and in this book Professor Montgomery Watt takes a significant step towards its demystification. Montgomery Watt examines the crucial questions of traditional world-view and self-image which dominate the thinking of Muslims today. This traditional self-image causes them to perceive world events in a different perspective from Westerners - a fact not always appreciated by the foreign ministries of Western powers. Professor Watt presents a brilliant and critical analysis of the traditional Islamic self-image, showing how it distorts Western modernism and restricts Muslims to a peripheral role in world affairs. In a scholarly and incisive way, he traces this harmful image to its origins in the medieval period and then to the traumatic exposure of Muslims to the West in modern times. He argues that Muslim culture is suffering from a dangerous introspection, and in his closing chapters presents a constructive criticism of contemporary Islam, aimed at contributing to a truer, more realistic Islamic self-image for today.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Watt, W. Montgomery (William Montgomery). Islamic fundamentalism and modernity.

ISBN:

9781134609703

1134609701

OCLC:

849744229

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