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In this regard, I purport to examine the following claims: 1) Islamic resurgence is a widespread traditional, cultural, and political phenomenon in modern Islam; 2) some western (and even Muslim) studies of Islamic resurgence have touched only the surface and, therefore, their methodological orientation has been inadequate; 3) as a facet of modem Islam, Islamic resurgence has reinterpreted the Islamic tradition in a creative and unique way; and 4) although the major leaders of the Islamic movement have placed philosophy outside the pale of Islam, one is tempted to study Islamic resurgence as a philosophical expression of modem and contemporary Muslim societies.
In my opinion, the author fails to provide an adequate historical analysis that takes into account the problematic of colonization in the Muslim world in its different manifestations: military, economic, cultural, political, religious, and conceptual.
Leonard Binder's Islamic Liberalism: A Critique of Development Ideologies is the most sophisticated western study of the relationship between Islam and society in the modem Arab world to appear in the United States recently.
22For a comprehensive analysis of Sayyid Qutb's ideas on imperialism and Israel, consult the author's study The Intellectual' Origins of Islamic Resurgence in the Mockrn Arab Worlt4 to be published by State University of New York Press.
This phase is distinguished by the building of western 30For an extensive analysis of these ideas, see Ibrahim Abu-Rabi', "Reflections on the Islamic Renaissance in the Modem Arab World: Some Methodological Questions," Islamic Culture, 63, no.