Beverley MiltonEdwards analyzes the roots and emergence of new Islamicmovements and the main thinkers that inspired them.Providing a muchneeded historical overv... » 

Beverley MiltonEdwards analyzes the roots and emergence of new Islamicmovements and the main thinkers that inspired them.Providing a muchneeded historical overview the main facets of Islamicfundamentalism are put in a global context with a thematic debate of issuessuch as the effects of colonialism on Islam secularism and the Islamic reaction Islam and violence globalization and transnational Islamic movements Islam in the wake of 911.For students and anyone interested in the history effects and consequences ofthese Islamic movements Islamic Fundamentalism since 1945 is the book to buy. «