Summary of Reza Aslan's Beyond Fundamentalism

Everest Media

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 Ben-Gurion International Airport is a brash, beautiful, and strikingly confident construction that serves as a testament to Israel’s self-ascribed position as a bastion of social and technological advancement amid a sea of inchoate enemies.
#2 I visited the village of Um al-Nasr in northern Gaza, which was flooded when Israel refused to allow the importation of pumps, pipes, and filters to treat the sewage that was leaking into the ground.
#3 Globalization is the process by which the world becomes a single space, and it is not just about technological advancement and transnational relations. It is about one’s sense of self in a world that is increasingly being viewed as a single space.
#4 The nation is an imagined community, meaning that it is borderless and consists of members who share a common heritage and culture. The state is the bureaucratic mechanism necessary to organize and control a nation within territorial boundaries.

Sujets

• Israel
• Religion
• Fundamentalism
• Philosophie et théologie

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 03 mai 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669399056
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Reza Aslan's Beyond Fundamentalism
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2 Insights from Chapter 3
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Ben-Gurion International Airport is a brash, beautiful, and strikingly confident construction that serves as a testament to Israel’s self-ascribed position as a bastion of social and technological advancement amid a sea of inchoate enemies.

#2

I visited the village of Um al-Nasr in northern Gaza, which was flooded when Israel refused to allow the importation of pumps, pipes, and filters to treat the sewage that was leaking into the ground.

#3

Globalization is the process by which the world becomes a single space, and it is not just about technological advancement and transnational relations. It is about one’s sense of self in a world that is increasingly being viewed as a single space.

#4

The nation is an imagined community, meaning that it is borderless and consists of members who share a common heritage and culture. The state is the bureaucratic mechanism necessary to organize and control a nation within territorial boundaries.

#5

Secular nationalism, the idea that the state should have a monopoly on the use of force, was problematic from the start. It assumed meticulous control over every level of social life, both private and public. It demanded consent over all activity, and it declared what was and wasn’t proper political expression.

#6

Religion is a powerful tool that can be used to challenge national identities. The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, the Islamic Action Front in Jordan, and Turkey’s Justice and Development Party are all examples of this.

#7

While religious nationalism is not specific to Islam, the rise of religious transnationalist movements, such as militant Islamic puritanism, is a far greater threat to global security.

#8

Despite its fixation on jihad, Global Jihadism is not a religious movement, but a social movement that employs religious symbols to forge a collective identity across borders and boundaries.

#9

Jihadism is not traditionalist, as it rejects all Islamic institutions and laws. It is a form of identity divorced from all political considerations, and it aims to separate the doctrine of jihad from all political institutions.

#10

The most successful Salafist organization was the Muslim Brotherhood, which was dedicated to the gradual Islamization of society through religious welfare and education programs. However, they were outlawed in Egypt in 1952, and many of their members fled to Saudi Arabia, where they were met with even more conservative strains of Islam.

#11

Wahhabism, a puritanical movement founded by Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab in the middle of the eighteenth century, became the official religion of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 1932. It was hybridized with Salafism and Saudi puritanism that gave birth to Jihadism.

#12

The death of Islamism as a viable political ideology was pronounced by scholars in the 1990s. The presence on the battlefield of tens of thousands of Muslim fighters from Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Yemen, Palestine, and other countries created a sense of global community among the Jihadists.

#13

Islamism and Jihadism, once cousins, have effectively split into two opposing, rival movements: religious nationalism versus religious transnationalism. Islamism is a nationalist ideology, whereas most Jihadists would like to erase all borders and return to an idealized past of religious communalism.