On Fundamentalisms

by Sadik J Al-Azm

Overview

Sadik Al-Azm is one of today's foremost Arab public intellectuals, who offers innovative, often controversial challenges to conventional narratives on Islam and the West, secularism, Orientalism, and the Israel-Palestine issue.On Fundamentalisms includes essays on: Islamic Fundamentalism Reconsidered, Islam and the Science-Religion Debates in Modern Times, The Struggle for the Meaning of Islam, What is Islamism?, and The Takfir Syllogism.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783940924223
Publisher:	Gerlach Press
Publication date:	11/30/2014
Series:	Collected Essays on Islam and Politics
Pages:	191
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.40(h) x 0.70(d)

Table of Contents

Foreword Stefan Wild 7

1 Islam and the Science-Religion Debates in Modern Times 17

2 Islamic Fundamentalism Reconsidered: A Critical Outline of Problems, Ideas and Approaches 33

I Terminological Debates 33

II A Defense 39

III Some Historical Comparisons 48

IV Errors, Heresies, and Innovations 52

V Popular Sovereignty 72

VI Modernists and Latitudinarians 79

VII Religion and Science 88

VIII Protestants and Islamists 98

IX Inerrantists, Dominionists, and Theonomists 133

3 The Struggle Over the Meaning of Islam 157

4 Appendix: What is Islamism? A Short and Compact Answer 173

5 Appendix: The Takfir Syllogism 177

Notes 179

Acknowledgements 188

Chronological Table 189