VALI NASR on origins of Islamism in 20th century ======================================= We have to understand that fundamentalism is a very, very recent phenomenon. If you looked at Islamic fundamentalism, it is a late twentieth-century phenomenon. The very first question you can ask is Why now? So, therefore, it is very much born of the circumstances that Muslims find themselves in today. These circumstances dont pertain to religion, because the religion has been the same religion for 1,400 years. It is the worldly conditions of Muslims that have necessitated or created circumstances for ideological interpretations of their politics. And in the circumstances where communist ideology is not theirs, capitalist ideology is not theirs, some interpretations of Islam have come to fill that ideological void. But ideologies are always about explaining political and social reality to individuals. So Islamic fundamentalism is performing the same role. It is performing the role of providing a blueprint and a road map for worldly existence to individual Muslims. globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people2/Nasr/nasr-con3.html
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