Islam : A Short History
Islam • 161 tries to introduce representative forms of government with- out complying with the Western slogan. But the democrati ...
162. Karen Armstrong bling and alcohol are forbidden and traditional punishments, such as the mutilation of thieves, are enshrin ...
During the 1970s, the Islamist forces became the main focus of opposition to the government, and the leftist, secular- ist Prime ...
164. Karen Armstrong of our modern culture poses special problems for people in all the major traditions. Christians, who are mo ...
Islam • 165 mentalist movement does not arise immediately, as a knee- jerk response to the advent of Western modernity, but only ...
166. Karen Armstrong is likely to rise up alongside it in conscious reaction. Funda- mentalists will often express their discont ...
Islam • 161 ture to create an enclave of pure faith (as, for example, within the ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities in Jerusalem ...
168. Karen Armstrong object to the use of the term "fundamentalism," pointing out quite correctly that it was coined by American ...
Islam • 169 But the real founder of Islamic fundamentalism in the Sunni world was Sayyid Qutb (1906-66), who was greatly in- flu ...
170. Karen Armstrong Muhammad had in fact finally achieved victory by an inge- nious policy of non-violence; the Quran adamantly ...
Islam • 171 and turns it in the opposite direction of what was intended. Like all the major faiths, Muslim fundamentalists, in t ...
172. Karen Armstrong The same principle underlines the return to Islamic dress. When this is forced upon people against their wi ...
Islam. 173 tenor of modern culture familiar, giving it a context of mean- ing and spirituality that makes it more accessible. Ag ...
174. Karen Armstrong and Chinese revolutions both owed their inspiration to the nineteenth-century vision of Karl Marx). Khomein ...
Islam. 175 Mulla Sadra, Khomeini's spiritual mentor. When Khomeini issued his fatwah against novelist Salman Rushdie on Feb- rua ...
176. Karen Armstrong Muslims in a Minority The spectre of Islamic fundamentalism sends a shiver through Western society, which s ...
Islam. 177 Muslims have fared better in the United States. The Mus- lim immigrants there are better educated and middle class. T ...
178. Karen Armstrong guered and endangered than their brothers and sisters in the West. The Hindus and Muslims of India are all ...
Islam. 179 ing charnel house. For at least five months the valleys and ditches around the city were filled with putrefying corps ...
180. Karen Armstrong ical intolerance of Islam has become one of the received ideas of the West. As the millennium drew to a clo ...
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