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Fundamentalism Politics and The Law

FUNDAMENTALISM POLITICS AND THE LAW

In the Muslim world, from North Africa to Southeast Asia, Islam reemerged as a major force in both political and social development.

Iran’s Islamic revolution in 1978-1979 spotlighted a contemporary reassertion of Islam that had actually been occurring for more than a decade in Libya, Egypt, Sudan, Pakistan, Lebanon, and Malaysia.

Radical Islamic movements engaged in a campaign of violence and terror in attempts to destabilize or overthrow governments in the Muslim world. Moderate Islamists, espousing the desecularization or Islamization of society, emerged as major social and political activists.

The challenge of religious and ethnic nationalisms has been evident in South Asia.

The conflict between Buddhist Sinhalese and Hindu Tamils in Sri Lanka has spanned decades. India, an ostensibly secular state, experienced multiple communal conflicts that were motivated by the challenge of religious nationalism, from Sikh demands for independence in Punjab to the rise of Hindu nationalism, particularly the militant activities of the BJP, and consequent conflict and violence with Muslims and Christians.

Emergent Muslim religious nationalisms in the former Soviet Union in Central Asia have been matched