Islamic fundamentalism

Understanding Islamic Fundamentalism: A Matter of Sociology

Understanding Islamic fundamentalism of today requires the frame of a clash not between
civilizations, but between different forms of psychological organization. It is therefore a matter of
sociology, explainable through the innovative approach of dynamic sociology. The term jihad is for
fundamentalists an armed revolution, both against those regimes of Islamic world guilty of apostasy, and
against all non-Islamic countries. At the root of nowadays’ fundamentalism it is not the opposition

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