Radical vs Liberal Islam

January 21, 2003

M. Dawam Rahardjo*
*Dean of the Bekasi University of Islam

 

Radical Islam" is a term applied to a grouping of certain Islamic movements. This term is already in use among Western academics—John L. Esposito and Horace M. Kallen to be specific. This topic has even become the point of study for several theses at the Syarif Hidayatullah campus of the State Islamic University in Jakarta. More accurately, "radical Islam"


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