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Tables of Contents for The Challenge of Fundamentalism
Chapter/Section Title
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Preface
ix
1. The Context: Globalization, Fragmentation, and Disorder
I
19
Islamic Fundamentalism, the West, and World Order
2
3
Fundamentalism: A Response to the Problems of Globalization and Fragmentation
5
1
The Secular Nation-State: Prime Target of Fundamentalism
6
2
After the Cold War: Further Fragmentation
8
2
The "Islamic Resurgence": Two Views
10
2
Political Islam as a Variety of Fundamentalism
12
3
The Clash of Two Universalisms:A "Clash of Civilizations"?
15
5
2. The Study of Islamic Fundamentalism and the Scope of the Inquiry
20
16
Religion, Fundamentalism, and Civilizations
20
4
Cultural Modernity in Reverse: Back to Collectivities
24
1
Antagonizing Democracy and Creating Disorder
25
4
Inventing Tradition: The Legacy of Islamic Reformism and Traditionalism
29
3
The Structure of This Inquiry
32
4
3. World Order and the Legacy of Saddam Hussein
36
28
The Legacy of the Gulf War
37
5
The Search for a New World Order
42
4
The Concept of Order between Cultural Relativism and Neo-Absolutism
46
4
The Regionalization of World Politics and the Politicization of Middle Eastern Islam
50
4
The Fundamentalist World Revolution: Jihad between Peace and Militancy
54
6
An Islamic World Order?
60
4
4. The Sociocultural Background and the Exposure to Cultural Modernity
64
18
Culture in World Politics: Globalized Structures and Cultural Fragmentation
65
3
Islamic Fundamentalism as a Semi-Modern, Backward-Oriented Utopia, Contesting Cultural Modernity
68
7
Between Private Religiosity and the Politicization of Religious Beliefs
75
4
Conclusions
79
3
5. Cultural Fragmentation, the Decline in Consensus, and the Diffusion of Power in World Politics
82
32
Cultural Fragmentation and the International Diffusion of Power
85
4
Islamic Fundamentalism as the Expression of a Revolt against the West
89
4
The Political Claims of Religious Options in a Secular World Order
93
6
The Islamic State as the Nucleus of an Islamic World Order
99
5
The Islamist Challenge: A Divine Global Order as an Alternative to Global Secularization?
104
3
The Cultural Basis of World Politics in an Age of Intercivilizational Conflict
107
6
Conclusions
113
1
6. The Crisis of the Nation-State: Islamic, Pan-Arab, Ethnic, and Sectarian Identities in Conflict
114
24
Understanding the Resort to Politicized Religion
115
1
Is Political Islam the Solution?
116
3
Between the Government of the People and the Government of God
119
5
The Nation-State: Between Ethnicity and Fundamentalism
124
4
Ethnicity, Regionalism, and the Search for Identity
128
4
The Institutionally Fragile Nominal Nation-State
132
4
Conclusions
136
2
7. The Fundamentalist Ideology: Context and the Textual Sources
138
20
The Repoliticization of Islam in Pursuit of a New Order
140
4
The Regional and Global Context of the Fundamentalist Writings
144
5
The Caliphate, the Fetwa, and the Distortion of History and Scripture
149
8
Conclusions
157
1
8. The Idea of an Islamic State and the Call for the Implementation of the Shari'a/Divine Law
158
21
Din wa dawla/Unity of Religion and State: But What Else?
159
6
Is the Shari'a an Islamic Constitution for an Islamic State?
165
4
Islamic Critics and the Islamic State: Is It True that the Shari'a Rules?
169
4
Is Shura an Islamic Substitute for Democracy?
173
4
Conclusions
177
2
9. Democracy and Democratization in Islam: An Alternative to Fundamentalism
179
20
Democracy and International Morality
180
3
Islamic Civilization, the West, and Democracy
183
5
The Accommodation of Democracy without a Rethinking of Islam
188
2
The Requirements for Democracy: Political Culture and Democratic Institutions
190
3
The Cases of Kuwait and Saudi Arabia
193
3
Conclusions
196
3
10. Human Rights in Islam and the West: Cross-Cultural Foundations of Shared Values
199
16
Islam and the West: From Dissent to International Morality
200
4
What Are "Human Rights"? Why Do They Matter for Muslims?
204
3
A Need for "Rethinking Islam": The Cultural Accommodation of Human Rights
207
2
Local Cultures, Regional Civilizations, and Their Exposure to Globalization
209
3
Conclusions
212
3
Notes
215
38
Names index
253
4
Subject index
257