Globalized Islam: The Search for a New Ummah (CERI Series in Comparative Politics and International Studies)

by ORoy (Author)

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  Paperback
  2004

  $23.48

  Argues that Islamic revival, or re-Islamization, results from the efforts of westernized Muslims to assert their identity in a non-Muslim context. This book provides a comparison of several transnational movements, whether peaceful, like Tablighi Jama'at and the Islamic brotherhoods, or violent, like Al Qaeda.