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A Postmodern Reaction to Dependent Modernization: The Social and Historical Roots of Islamic Radicalism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 July 2015

Haldun Gülalp
Haldun Gülalp*
Affiliation:
Hamilton College, Department of Sociology
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The recent rise of Islamic Radicalism in the Middle East is generally associated with anti-Western sentiment and interpreted as a continuation of the traditional conflict between Christian and Islamic civilizations. It is thought to reflect a traditionalist opposition to the modernization process which originated in the West and then was introduced to the Islamic countries (for an example of this literature, see Youssef, 1985). But this view cannot explain the historical timing and specificity of the current Islamic political revival. In this paper I suggest that Islamic radicalism is not a traditionalist plea to return to a pre-modern era. Quite the contrary, it is a product of the contradictions of Third World modernization and represents a post-modern reaction to the specific form of modernization experienced by the Islamic Third World. In the Islamic countries, where modernization has been synonymous with westernization, the response to the contradictions of modernization has taken the form of a “politics of identity.”

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New Perspectives on Turkey , Volume 8 , fall 1992 , pp. 15 - 26
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Copyright © New Perspectives on Turkey 1992

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