Contextualizing Islamic Fundamentalism

Abstract

/% VIRTUAL INDUSTRY HAS SPRUNG UP in academic and policy circles over Samuel Huntington's 'clash of civilization' thesis. Most of the responses have been punishing critiques of its essentialist tendencies and arguments for more contingent and complex understandings of the role of culture and religion in international conflict and co-operation in the post-cold war era. Yet, curiously but perhaps not surprisingly, Huntingtons ideas have had particular resilience when it comes