The Myth of Authenticity (A Study in Islamic Fundamentalism)

xv,386 pp, 22x14cm, Contents: Revivalism: The Reformulation of Islamic Weltanschauung: The Hanbalite Model & Ibn Tamiya (1263-1328 AD); The Premodernist Wahhabism; Wahhabism: The Ideology; The Polity; 20th Century Wahhabism on the Arab Soil; Wahhabism: A Catalyst for Detribalization; The Birth of Polity; Ibn Saud & the Establishment of the Regime; The Disruptive Modernizing Milieu; Radical Fundamentalism: The Emergence of the Muslim Brotherhood; Social Change & Its Discontent; The Muslim Brotherhood: A Political Phenomenion; Ideological Politics in Syria; Sudan: The Quest for Islamic Identity; Politicised Islam The Muslim Brotherhood: Mentality & Ideology; The Brotherhood & Its Ideologues; Conservative Fundamentalism: Mawdudi: The Ideology of Neo-Orthodoxy; The Reformation of Islamic Weltanschauung; The Characterization of Divinity; The Shaping of Religious Consciousness; The Nature of Prophecy; The Shaping Up of the Moral Outlook; The Inseperability of Religion & Politics; The Institutional Structure of the Islamic State; The Myth of Ijtihad; The Raison d'etre of Islamic State; The Importance & Implications of Social Justice; The Sanctitiy of Private Property; The Search of Cultural Authenticity; Ideology & Sanctified Militancy; The Fate of Ideology in the Midst of Political Realities; The Myth of Authenticity: The Arab Muslim World & Its Ideological Cross Currents; The Advent of Modernism; The Triumph of Nationalism; Radical Islamic Fundamentalism: The Sole Response to a Crisis Milieu; Conservative Fundamentalism: Tradition the Leitmotif for Power; The Quest for Islamic Slight page-edge soil. Light binding corner bumps. VG., dustwrapper.…