TABLE OF CONTENTS: Preface xi
A Note on Spelling xv
CHAPTER ONE
Re-Marking Territories 3
Comparative Political Theory and Foundationalist Political Practice 8
The Politics of Naming: Defining Fundamentalism 16
CHAPTER TWO
Projections and Refractions: Islamic Fundamentalism and Modern Rationalist Discourse 20
The Irrational Rational Actor: Theories of Islamic Fundamentalism 25
Meaning and Power: A Dialogic Model of Intepretation 36
Toward an Understanding of Islamic Fundamentalism 42
CHAPTER THREE
A View from Another Side: The Political Theory of Sayyid Qutb 49
Sayyid Qutb: Radical and Martyr 53
Modernity as Pathology: Analysis and Exhortation in Signposts along the Road 55
Rationalism and Reenchantment 84
Conclusion: Beyond Orientalism 88
CHAPTER FOUR
A View across Time: Islam as the Religion of Reason 93
Afghani and Islamic Philosophy 96
`Abduh and The Theology of Unity 105
Through the Back Door: Rationalism and Islamic Modernism 114
Coda: Khomeini and Shi`ite Fundamentalism 117
CHAPTER FIVE
Inside the Looking Glass: Views within the West 123
The Crisis of Authority 127
The Decay of Morality 133
The Decline of Community 142
Modern Anxieties and Metaphysical Urges 150
CHAPTER SIX
Conclusion: Cultural Syncretism and Multiple Modernities 154
Notes 169
Bibliography 217
Index 233
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