Globalized Islam The Search of a New Ummah

A brilliant exegesis of the Muslim backlash against westernisation, arguing that this response is itself a form of westernisation??and a logical response to the spread of Islam beyong traditional borders.
?Globalised Islam extends the argument of Roy?s The Failure of Political Islam, both by taking into account the momentous impact of new jihad movements like Al Qaeda, as well as by looking closely at the development of immigrant Muslim groups in the West. The result is a vast narrative sweep replete with well-observed details and brilliant insights on almost every page. [...] Roy offers a trenchant and devastating critique of journalistic and academic theories that rely upon notions of Islam?s political ?revival? and ?radicalization? by pointing out not only the obsolescence of state-based forms of Muslim politics, but also by showing how ?modern? and indeed ?Western? were such projects, as well as what he calls the ?neo-fundamentalism? that succeeds them. In his detailed examination of neo-fundamentalism worldwide, and particularly in the West, as well as in his extensive use of the Internet as Muslim arena and resource, Roy makes the rhetoric and practices of post-political Islam analytically comprehensible for the first time, especially by putting together the jihad movements with everyday neo-fundamentalism in a way that makes all absolute distinctions of ?radical? and ?moderate?, ?political? and ?quietist absurd.???Faisal Devji, Yale University

?Olivier Roy is perhaps the most provocative and innovative writer on Islamism today....There is no more reliable guide to this labyrinth.???Martin Kramer, Middle Eastern Quarterly

?Roy is one of the most important analysts of political Islam today.???James Piscatori, fellow, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies and Wadham College