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 book investigates the central role of reason in Islamic intellectual life. Despite widespread characterization of Islam as a system of belief based only on revelation, JohnWalbridge argues that rational methods, not fundamentalism, have characterized Islamic law, philosophy, theology, and education since the medieval period. His research demonstrates that this medieval Islamic rational tra...

this research was done for understanding islamic fundamentalism and its relationship with violence. islamic fundamentalism has had significant developments since its appearance at the turn of the 19th century. the most important development is its radicalization in recent decades. in this article, the author addresses the roots and principles of islamic fundamentalism, its main theorists and it...

the islamic fundamentalism which turned into a major social course in many arab countries in 1980s, has inspired a wide spectrum of theoretical analyses. in this article we have attempted to evaluate this course by the method of discoursive analyse. despite many dissimilarities that differentiate islamic fundamentalism from other political , and even religious reformist, movements regarding met...

this article seeks to reveal the theoretical basics of islabmic fundamentalism. precedence of religion over reason in epistemology, emphasize on human being duties in anthropology, government on the base of jurisprudence in political approach, and criticizing the western civilization, are the theoretical indicators of islamic fundamentalism. the devotees of islam (fada'iyan-e islam) as an ...