"Globalized Islam: The Search for a New Ummah"

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This paper discusses how Oliver Roy suggests that, rather than view Islam as a seamless ideology, political analysts must take a comparative perspective upon various Islamic movements in different national and regional concepts. It shows how Roy states that, despite Islamic neo-fundamentalist rhetoric to the contrary, there never was, nor can there be one singular Islamic mindset.

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"Furthermore, Roy goes on to suggest that the Islamic neo-fundamentalist movement stand at a crossroads, and is in far more disarray than one might think. Either, it can either eschew the ideology of innate Islamic differences with the West in the form of the modern nation state, or embrace fundamentalism in a religious fashion and look inward-however, it cannot go on ignoring the differences between a Muslim in Chechnya, Russia, in Bosnia, and Saudi Arabia, regardless of an apparent shared religious ideology, and assert that all three fundamentalists will share the same political concerns, regardless of social and economic needs, status and borders. National contextual needs and social perceptions will change the way different Muslims view their Islamic faith. In France, a North African, "is an Arab" if he is "under thirty and from a poor neighborhood," and of dark skin, while a Saudi Prince living in Paris as an exchange student is simply "a Saudi prince" (4)"

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