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Islamic fundamentalism
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ideology, which equals 'return to Islam'
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- group action
- Subclass of
- religious fundamentalism
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- Commons category
- Islamic fundamentalism
- topic's main category
- Category:Islamic fundamentalism
- native label
- أصولية إسلامية
- different from
- Wahhabism
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Encyclopedic overview
Islamic fundamentalism has been defined as a revivalist and reform movement of Muslims who aim to return to the founding scriptures of Islam. The term has been used interchangeably with similar terms such as Islamism, Islamic revivalism, the Salafi movement, Qutbism, Islamic activism, and has been criticized as pejorative.
Some of the beliefs attributed to Islamic fundamentalists are that the primary sources of Islam (the Quran, Hadith, and Sunnah), should be interpreted in a literal and originalist way; that corrupting non-Islamic influences should be eliminated from every part of Muslims' lives; and that the societies, economies, and governance of Muslim-majority countries should return to the fundamentals of Islam, the system of Islam, and become Islamic states.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Islamic fundamentalism” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.