Historical Dictionary of Islamic Fundamentalist Movements in the Arab World, Iran, and Turkey

Professor Ahman S. Moussalli, Associate Professor of Political Science at the American University of Beirut, is a brave man. We owe him a great debt. He is brave, not so much for tackling such a high‐profile and emotive subject as Islamic fundamentalism, though there is that as well ‐ some areas of scholarship are still a little dangerous ‐ but for tackling a subject of such complexity and confusion.

Scarecrow Press’s series of historical dictionaries will be known to most reference librarians. Like others of the series the main body of the book consists of an alphabetical sequence of topics...