Radicalism and Political Reform in the Islamic and Western Worlds

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Radicalism and Political Reform in the Islamic and Western Worlds is written by Kai Hafez and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1139489046 (ISBN 10) and 9781139489041 (ISBN 13).

Over the last decade, political Islam has been denounced in the Western media and in the surrounding literature as a terrorist or fascist movement that is entirely at odds with Western democratic ideology. Kai Hafez's book overturns these arguments, contending that, despite its excesses, as a radical form of political opposition the movement plays a central role in the processes of democratization and modernization, and that these processes have direct parallels in the history and politics of the West. By analyzing the evolution of Christian democratization through the upheavals of the Reformation, colonisation, fascism, and totalitarianism, the book shows how radicalism and violence were constant accompaniments to political change, and that these components - despite assertions to the contrary - are still part of Western political culture to this day.