Historical Dictionary of Islamic Fundamentalism

Though Scarecrow Press first published a dictionary of Islamic fundamentalism in 1999, this one is a completely new work. For obvious reasons, since the original book appeared, its subject has become one of far greater concern, not only to the Islamic world but throughout the globe, and the extent of the present volume is correspondingly large, with 540 articles ranging in length from 50 to 3,000 words. These, as the author declares, deal with relevant “basic ideas, concepts, ideologies, leaders and intellectuals, dogmas, groups, events and movements”. The great majority of them in fact relate either to personalities or to...