Abstract
This chapter analyses available global opinion data from the World Values Survey (WVS) project in 72 countries of the world, representing some 4/5 of the global population in the context of debates about Islamism. We turn in this chapter to the roots of the Islamist ideology, which so forcefully expanded in the second half of the twentieth century and analyse key propositions of the writings of the Egyptian Sayyid Qutb (1906–1966), who defined the conditions of our globe in terms of Jahiliyyah (“The Age of Ignorance”), which touches upon issues well-known to contemporary global value research—the rejection of traditional values relating to family and society combined with the marginalization of religion. When Qutb talks about the “pagan” and “materialistic Greek culture”, which—according to him—began to dominate the West, and when he talks about Western religion as being isolated in the sentiments of people’s hearts and souls, and when he talks about the West as being materialistic, morally exhausted, his analyses render themselves open to the objective analysis of global opinion data in the context of the World Values Survey project.
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