Open AccessBin Laden and Other Thoroughly Modern Muslims
Author(s) -
Charles Kurzman
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
contexts
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1537-6052
pISSN - 1536-5042
DOI - 10.1525/ctx.2002.1.4.13
Subject(s) - islam , bin , democracy , political science , political economy , sociology , aesthetics , law , history , politics , art , engineering , archaeology , mechanical engineering
Osama bin Laden may have operated from a cave in one of the least-developed countries in the world, but his radical Islamic movement is thoroughly modern. In many ways, radical Islamists are a mirror image of Islamic liberals, whose peaceful struggle to establish democracy is actually more popular.
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