Mumtaz Ahmad is professor in Hampton University’s Department of Political Science. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences’ “Fundamentalism Project,” Dr. Ahmad has been a Research Fellow at the Brookings Institution, a Fellow of the American Institute of Pakistan Studies and the International Institute of Islamic Thought, a Fulbright Professor in Bangladesh and Pakistan, and a Vis...

This article explores the contribution of modern Muslim revivalism to Muslims’ political decolonization, and paradoxical role West plays in that process. On one hand, rejects founding principles liberal theory, on other it readily adopts salient structures mechanisms polity with a view Islamize them, all while insisting need de-Westernize. Toward revealing hitherto neglected dimensions revivali...