This path brings together fundamentalism and modern political transformations, and presents the relationship between religion, politicization, legitimacy, and violence as a relationship formed within discourse and in the public sphere. Here, fundamentalism appears not as an isolated religious state, but as a way of organizing meaning and directing action, with the accompanying closure of interpretation and narrowing of the critical distance between text and history.
This path appears clearly in Fundamentalist Thought and the Impossibility of Foundationalization, where fundamentalism stands alongside the question of historicity, and with the limits of a reading that seeks to make origin the ultimate criterion. In From Manhattan to Baghdad, the political present enters the discussion directly, through violence, justice, and understanding the West and Islam in a globalized world.
The path also appears in Where Is Contemporary Islamic Thought? with regard to the deadlock of thought, the stalling of ijtihad, and the link between religious crisis and ideological instrumentalization. Here, fundamentalism emerges as part of a crisis of reading, not merely as a doctrinal position detached from history and politics.
Related books
- Fundamentalist Thought and the Impossibility of Foundationalization
- From Manhattan to Baghdad
- Where Is Contemporary Islamic Thought?