RT Article
T1 'Fundamentalism', modernity and the new Jacobins
JF Economy and society
VO 28
IS 2
SP 198
OP 221
A1 Ray, Larry 1951-
LA English
YR 1999
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1931406421
AB This paper offers an interpretaion of 'Islamic fundamentalism', especially the Iranian Revolution, in the context of sociological debates about 'modernity'. The problematic nature of both these terms is acknowledge. It criticizes explanations of 'fundamentalism' that begin from the assumption of a dichotomy between fundamentalism and modernity, arguing instead for a more nuanced understanding of both Islamic revivalism and the modern. The paper begins by offering a model of modernity as a set of bi-modal tensions within which Islamic 'fundamentalism' could be understood as a form of modernist revolutionary populism. This argument is then developed through a comparison betwen the 1979 Iranian Revolution and the Jacobin phase of the French Revolution. It argues that there are parallels between the idea of Islamic revolution and the Jacobin revolutionary imagination, which demonstrate with some observations on Islam, and the closure of the Jacobin revolutionary project.
K1 Iran
K1 Islam
K1 Fundamentalism
K1 Modernity
K1 Revolution
DO 10.1080/03085149900000003