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Title Spokesmen for the despised : fundamentalist leaders of the Middle East / edited by R. Scott Appleby
Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1997

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Description vii, 429 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Contents Introduction / R. Scott Appleby -- 1. Khomeini's Legacy: Islamic Rule and Islamic Social Justice / Daniel Brumberg -- 2. The Oracle of Hizbullah: Sayyid Muhammad Husayn Fadlallah / Martin Kramer -- 3. Global Islamic Awakening or Sudanese Nightmare?: The Curious Case of Hassan Turabi / Judith Miller -- 4. Shaykh Ahmad Yasin and the Origins of Hamas / Ziad Abu-Amr -- 5. Fundamentalist Preaching and Islamic Militancy in Upper Egypt / Patrick D. Gaffney -- 6. The Father, the Son, and the Holy Land: The Spiritual Authorities of Jewish-Zionist Fundamentalism in Israel / Gideon Aran -- 7. Guides of the Faithful: Contemporary Religious Zionist Rabbis / Samuel C. Heilman -- 8. A Christian Fundamentalist Vision of the Middle East Jan Willem van der Hoeven and the International Christian Embassy / Yaakov Ariel -- Conclusion: The Measure of a Fundamentalist Leader / R. Scott Appleby
Analysis Religion in politics
Islamic fundamentalism
Christian fundamentalism
Middle East
Biography
Leadership
International comparisons
Overseas item
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Religious leaders -- Middle East.
Religious fundamentalism -- Middle East.
SUBJECT Middle East -- Religion http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008115890 -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012476
Middle East -- Politics and government -- 1979- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh89000800
Genre/Form Biographies.
Author Appleby, R. Scott, 1956-
LC no. 96020600
ISBN 0226021246 cloth alkaline paper
0226021254 paperback alkaline paper