Islamic Fundamentalism and Modernity

by William Montgomery Watt

Book Overview

Islam is a burning topic in modern scholarship and contemporary world affairs. It is a subject poorly understood by Western observers, and in this book Professor Montgomery Watt takes a significant step towards its demystification.

Montgomery Watt examines the crucial questions of traditional world-view and self-image which dominate the thinking of Muslims today. This traditional self-image causes them to perceive world events in a different...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138912654
• ISBN13: 9781138912656
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"