Islamic fundamentalism : the new global threat / [print]
by Mohammad Mohaddessin.
- Washington, District of Columbia : Seven Locks Press, (c)2001.
- xliv pages, 226 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
"With a new introduction and updated appendix"--Cover.
Foreword Preface Introduction: In the Eye of the Storm -- Dogmatism versus Democracy: A Brief History of Fundamentalism -- The Fundamentalist Appeal -- Fanaticism Versus Liberty -- Kharajites: First Advocates of Dogmatism -- Legitimizing the Status Quo -- Democratic, Antireactionary Islamic Movements -- Shi'ism in Safavid and Post-Safavid Iran -- Iran's Constitutional Revolution of 1906 -- Sunnism and the New Era -- The Pillars of the Mullahs' Rule -- Two Pillars of Khomeini's Rule -- Velayat-e-faqih in the Constitution -- The Post-Khomeini Regime -- Constitution Revised -- Moderation an Anathema -- "Mother of All Islamic Lands": The Mullahs' Foreign Policy -- Fertile Grounds for Fundamentalism -- The Power of Islam -- A Bastion of Islamic Culture -- Decline of Nationalism -- Role of Oil -- Global Changes -- Appeasement: An Ominous Policy -- Fundamentalism and Islam's Great Schism -- The Iran-Iraq War -- The War and the Mojahedin -- Damages Inflicted by the War -- A Dream Unfulfilled -- Arms of the Octopus: Exporting Fundamentalism to Central Asia -- Ties of History and Culture -- Iranian-Soviet Relations -- After the Soviet Collapse -- Azerbaijan: A Special Case -- Turkmenistan and Other Republics -- Afghanistan -- Pan-Islamism Versus Pan-Turkism? -- Fundamentalism in the Arab World -- The Eastern Mediterranean -- North Africa -- Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf States -- The Muslim World at Large -- An "International Islamic Army" -- Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Georgie Anne Geyer -- Dr. Davina Miller --