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Jews and Fundamentalism

March 21, 2005 | Prof. Samuel Heilman

The differences between active and quiescent fundamentalism, two stages of the phenomenon, help explain developments among contemporary Orthodox Jewry, which is also divided along these lines. Included in the former category are Orthodox Jewish settlers in the Land of Israel as well as Chabad Hasidim who are on a mission to transform Jewish life. Those who make up haredi Jewry, and in particular those in the world of the yeshivas, constitute the latter category. The year of yeshiva study spent i

Islamic Fundamentalism in the Public Square

October 30, 1999 | Raphael Israeli

Muslim fundamentalists throughout the Islamic world have seized upon the question of legitimacy of the regimes under which they live, absolute monarchies and all other forms of authoritarian rule, in order to come to the public square and pose them selves as popular alternatives to the existing unpopular regimes. This links up with the basic suspicion of the West which prevails among these movements, due to the corrupting nature of Western values which contradict Islam, and the alliance that the Islamists find between their corrupt regimes and that same West. To attain their goal, the Islamists have developed a vocabulary and a plethora of symbols to replace the secular institutions and the political jargon that was borrowed from the West. This essay includes a case study of the struggle between the PLO and Hamas in the Palestinian Authority.

The Impact of Muslim Fundamentalism on the Israeli-Arab Conflict

August 15, 1988

Hussein and Arafat: The Troubled Partnership

February 12, 1986

The Challenge of Islamic Fundamentalism

October 10, 1985

The Enemy is not Anonymous

November 13, 1983