The Qur’an Is Interpreted Within the Dialectic of Fundamentalism and Symbolic One-Upmanship

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• Islamic Qur’anic thought is understood as a historical-political phenomenon that rebuilt the community

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• Fundamentalist activism as political protest
• Imitative outbidding as competition over the model
• Religious symbols as fuel for mobilization
• Fundamentalist activism as political protest
• Imitative outbidding as competition over the model
• Religious symbols as fuel for mobilization