خلاصه ماشینی:
Understanding Modernity on One's Own Terms Abdel-Qader Yassine How can the movements fighting for an Islamic stateirrwhich-Shari'ah (the Islamic Law) rules supreme best be understood-as part of a worldwide reaction against modernist thought or as a broad and diverse attempt to understand and tackle the problems of modernity through reconnecting with an indigenous system of references for producing meaning?
What Lawrence sees in the fundamentalist movements is a religious ideology out to defend the Absolute Truth as preserved in the Holy Scriptures from the onslaught of modernism-in other words, to defend God. The core contest is between two incommensurate ways of viewing the world--0ne that locates values in timeless scriptures, inviolate laws, and unchanging mores, and another that sees in the expansion of scientific knowledge a technological transformation of society that pluralizes options both for learning and for living.
To sum up, the Islamists, while never compromising on the idea of God as the sole legislator, nevertheless consider human agency a necessity for working out the principles of the Shari'ah into actual law codes for modem society.
Against this background the growth of the Islamist movement could be seen as an attempt to regain the identity and viability of Arab societies through two closely related processes which might be put in the following terms: reconnecting with an indigenous system of references for producing meaning as a framework for understanding and discussing how to tackle the problems Muslim societies face in the modem world.
the Islamists support the right to make fresh interpretations of the Qur'an and Sunnah in order to formulate an Islamic law valid for today's society.