伊斯兰教是现代学术和当代世界事务中的热门话题。这是一个西方观察家所知甚少的主题，在这本书中，蒙哥马利·瓦特教授朝着解开谜团迈出了重要的一步。
蒙哥马利·瓦特（Montgomery Watt）研究了主导当今穆斯林思想的传统世界观和自我形象的关键问题。这种传统的自我形象使他们以不同于西方人的视角看待世界事件——西方大国的外交部并不总是理解这一事实。瓦特教授对传统的伊斯兰自我形象进行了精彩而批判性的分析，展示了它如何扭曲西方现代主义，并将穆斯林限制在世界事务中的边缘角色。他以一种学术和精辟的方式，将这种有害的形象追溯到中世纪时期，然后追溯到现代穆斯林对西方的创伤。他认为，穆斯林文化正在遭受危险的内省，在他的最后几章中，他对当代伊斯兰教提出了建设性的批评，旨在为今天的伊斯兰自我形象做出更真实、更现实的贡献。
Islamic Fundamentalism and Modernity
Islam is a burning topic in modern scholarship and contemporary world affairs. It is a subject poorly understood by Western observers, and in this book Professor Montgomery Watt takes a significant step towards its demystification.
Montgomery Watt examines the crucial questions of traditional world-view and self-image which dominate the thinking of Muslims today. This traditional self-image causes them to perceive world events in a different perspective from Westerners – a fact not always appreciated by the foreign ministries of Western powers. Professor Watt presents a brilliant and critical analysis of the traditional Islamic self-image, showing how it distorts Western modernism and restricts Muslims to a peripheral role in world affairs. In a scholarly and incisive way, he traces this harmful image to its origins in the medieval period and then to the traumatic exposure of Muslims to the West in modern times. He argues that Muslim culture is suffering from a dangerous introspection, and in his closing chapters presents a constructive criticism of contemporary Islam, aimed at contributing to a truer, more realistic Islamic self-image for today.
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