Modernisation and Islamic Fundamentalism: The Muslim Brotherhood and its Ramifications

Uri M. Kupferschmidt

doi:10.1007/978-94-015-8500-2_3

Modernisation and Islamic Fundamentalism: The Muslim Brotherhood and its Ramifications

Uri M. Kupferschmidt

Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies

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Abstract

For the believer there may be only one, eternal, perfect and immutable Islam; for the outside observer there may be one phenomenon vaguely characterised as “Islamic fundamentalism”; but the researcher is confronted with a variegated spectrum of religious manifestations, both on the collective and individual levels, which are as susceptible to change and to ever new challenges as is Islamic society at large. It is far from easy to arrive at a generally agreed upon and universally valid definition of “Islamic fundamentalism”.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Search for Fundamentals
Subtitle of host publication	The Process of Modernisation and the Quest for Meaning
Editors	Lieteke van Vucht Tijssen, Jan Berting, Frank Lechner
Place of Publication	Dordrecht
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Pages	41-62
Number of pages	22
ISBN (Electronic)	978-94-015-8500-2
ISBN (Print)	978-90-481-4568-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8500-2_3
State	Published - 1995

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Modernisation and Islamic Fundamentalism: The Muslim Brotherhood and its Ramifications. / Kupferschmidt, Uri M.
The Search for Fundamentals: The Process of Modernisation and the Quest for Meaning. ed. / Lieteke van Vucht Tijssen; Jan Berting; Frank Lechner. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 1995. p. 41-62.

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