Islamic fundamentalism

Question 1

What was at the heart of the movement?

Answer 1

Muslims
Return to their Islamic values
Establish states based on laws from the Koran

Question 2

What were followers of political Islam and what does this mean?

Answer 2

Fundamentalists, state should be based wholly on Islamic law

Question 3

How did Arab nationalism react to Islam?

Answer 3

Accepted special place for Islam in the life of most Arabs, but not the political life of the nation

Question 4

What did Islamic groups not want?

Answer 4

Divisions between political and religious life

Question 5

Features of political Islam?

Answer 5

Thrived

First home grown ideology in the Arab world

Question 6

What did many followers of political Islam believe in?

Answer 6

Jihad, which mean’t struggle in the Arabic language

Question 7

Which Arab countries felt threatened by political Islam?

Answer 7

Conservative monarchies, Saudi Arabia and Jordan
Oil-rich states in the Gulf, Kuwait
Egypt, after making peace with Israel in 1978