RUI: Islamic Modernism, Liberal Nationalism and Fundamentalism in the Middle East

本科院校研究奖（RUI） 为研究三大思想运动提供了支持 在当代中东。 第一个是伊斯兰现代主义， 这成为伊斯兰教的主要政治倾向， 世纪末和二十世纪初。 二是 伊斯兰教的衰落和各种世俗意识形态的兴起， 民族主义和自由主义在世纪早期到中期。 第三个是伊斯兰原教旨主义的崛起， 反对派运动内部的趋势主要是在六十年代 以及之后的事 这项研究将使用埃及的档案材料， 伊朗，印度，巴基斯坦和叙利亚，以研究上升的原因 这些意识形态运动，并检查连接 宏观的社会经济和政治变化， 中东意识形态运动的衰落。 这项研究将提供一个科学的理解， 中东国家的伊斯兰和其他运动，以及 通过这样做，它可以克服一些误解， 存在于当代西方文化中的关于 东方社会和伊斯兰运动的本质。

This Research in Undergraduate Institutions award (RUI) provides support for a study of three major ideological movements in the contemporary Middle East. The first is Islamic modernism, which became the dominant political tendency within Islam in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The second is the ebb of Islam and the rise of various secular ideologies such as nationalism and liberalism in the early to mid-twentieth century. The third is the rise of fundamentalist Islam as the dominant tendency within the opposition movements largely in the sixties and thereafter. The study will use archival materials for Egypt, Iran, India, Pakistan and Syria to examine the causes of the rise of these ideological movements, and to examine the connection between macro socioeconomic and political changes and the rise or decline in ideological movements in the Middle East. This study will provide a scientific understanding of Islamic and other movements in the Middle Eastern countries, and by doing so it may overcome some of the misconceptions that exists in Western cultures on the nature of contemporary Middle Eastern societies and the nature of Islamic movements in general.