مباني جنبشهاي اسلام گرايانه : نظريات و ديدگاه ها

The Basics of Islamist Movements: View Points and Attitudes

Understanding the origin of Islamic movements is subject to determining the theories concerning the roots and causes of these movements formation in the recent three decades. The main question of the present study is how the origins of Islamism can be determined from the Western theorists view points. As a reply to this question, two categories of nature-oriented and reaction-oriented theories are presented. Theories considering Islamism from nature-oriented attitude regard current Islamism in the Islamic World as the result of values and principles inherent in the nature of Islam; furthermore, theorists like Mawʹdud and Sayyid Qutb have a positive view towards it, while the Western thinkers have a completely negative view points towards the intrinsic Islamism and equate it with violence. The second category of theories concerning Islamism includes a large group of Western and Muslim thinkers who regard the present Islamism a reaction to the domestic and foreign problems of Islam; in fact, they consider Islamism as a transient and ephemeral phenomenon resulting from modernism.