"الأصولية الإسلامية "في الفكر الغربي المعاصر : دراسة تاريخية

Abstract EN

Islamic fundamentalism is one of the significant subjects in the area and Islamic world.

This topic represents a chief heading for detailed studies written by western writers.

In these writings, the writers shed light on the eye-catching growing Islamic revival.

It could be say that what have been written and what are being written in the west about the Islam and Islamists were not coming out of the scientific research but rather in congruity with intellectual starting points and ideological dispositions.

The present study investigate the western stand towards what so-called (Islamic Fundamentalism).

The study falls into two parts: The first deals with the historical reviews of the relation between Islam and the west.

The second part, on the other hand, deals with describing the fundamentalism in the history of Islam and Christianity.

In addition to mentioning the motives behind fundamentalism, the third part focuses on the western stand towards the Islamic fundamentalism.

This is subdivided into two trends: The first is against the Islamic fundamentalism.

The second adopts a mature thinking for presenting a western policy understanding the reasons and motives behind this fundamentalism in order to arrive at an agreement between west and the Islamic world.