Globalized Islam the search for a new Ummah

• Main Author: Roy, Olivier 1949- (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York Columbia University Press 2004
• Series: The CERI series in comparative politics and international studies
• Subjects: Ummah (Islam) > Islamic countries; Globalization > Religious aspects > Islam > Islamic countries; Islam and politics > Islam > Religious aspects > Islamic countries; Islamic countries > Politics and government
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 The spread of Islam around the globe has blurred the connection between a religion, a specific society, and a territory. One-third of the world's Muslims now live as members of a minority. At the heart of this development is, on the one hand, the voluntary settlement of Muslims in Western societies and, on the other, the pervasiveness and influence of Western cultural models and social norms. The revival of Islam among Muslim populations in the last twenty years is often wrongly perceived as a backlash against westernization rather than as one of its consequences. Neofundamentalism has been gaining ground among a rootless Muslim youth-particularly among the second- and third-generation migrants in the West-and this phenomenon is feeding new forms of radicalism, ranging from support for Al Qaeda to the outright rejection of integration into Western society.