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THE REVIVAL OF ISLAMIC FUNAMENTALISM: THE CASE OF IRAN
William E. Griffith
The Iranian revolution has highlighted one of the principle religious and political developments of our time, the revival of Islamic fundamentalism, from Indonesia to Morocco and from Turkey to central Africa.[1] In the short run it will cause more problems to the West. In the long run, however, it may be more dangerous to the Soviet Union in Muslim Soviet Central Asia.[2]
The western model of modernization, industrialization, and rational bureaucracy, of an agnostic intelligentsia and consumerist masses, has had
- ↑ O.G.R., "Grollender Islam in Indonesia,"
- ↑ For background, see Alexandre Bennigsen and S. Enders Wimbush, Muslim National Communism in the Soviet Union (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979). The authors point out the similarities between the national communist views of Sultan Galiev, its principal representative, and Tan Malake, M.N. Roy, Ben Bella (explicitly), and Jose Carlos Mariategui. There are considerable similarities to 'Ali Shari 'ati as well. See also Bennigsen, "Muslim Conservative Opposition to the Soviet Regime: The Sufi Brotherhoods in North Caucasus," in Jeremy Aerael, ed., Soviet Nationality Policies and Practices (New York: Praeger, 1978), pp. 334-348.
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