Custom and practice
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,1349082,00.html
Olivier Roy provides a valuable snapshot of the Islamic world in
Globalised Islam, says Jonathan Steele
Saturday November 13, 2004
The Guardian
Globalised Islam by Olivier Roy
Fear is often based on simplifying or even inventing the dangers that
surround the frightened. Working from this premise, Olivier Roy's
career as one of the west's most knowledgeable scholars of "Islam in
practice" has been devoted to combating its demonisation. By laying
out the multiplicity of different forms of Muslim behaviour he has
always aimed to show there is no single Islam just as there is no
single Christianity. In The Failure of Political Islam he argued
provocatively in the early 1990s that Islamist movements were running
out of revolutionary steam. They would either become normal political
parties, as has subsequently happened in Jordan and Turkey, or they
would lead to a kind of individual neo-fundamentalism. Islamists would
drop out of the political arena, preferring to become "born-again
Muslims" and concentrate on social, ethical, and lifestyle issues
rather than on political change or the creation of an Islamic state.
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