Islamic “Fundamentalism”: the Mission Creep of an American Religious Metaphor

In this article I examine the work of the earliest scholars to identify “fundamentalism” among Muslims and highlight debates over the cross-cultural usefulness of the Protestant label. I focus on renowned orientalists who used the metaphor to describe the differences among Muslims long before Americ...

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Main Author: Corbett, Rosemary R. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press [2015]
In: Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Year: 2015, Volume: 83, Issue: 4, Pages: 977-1004
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