Islamic resurgence accepts modernity while rejecting Western culture

Evidence

The movements for religious revival are antisecular, antiuniversal, and, except in their Christian manifestations, anti-Western. They also are opposed to the relativism, egotism, and consumerism associated with what Bruce B. Lawrence has termed “modernism” as distinct from “modernity.” By and large they do not reject urbanization, industrialization, development, capitalism, science, and technology, and what these imply for the organization of society. In this sense, they are not antimodern. They accept modernization, as Lee Kuan Yew observes, and “the inevitability of science and technology and the change in the life-styles they bring,” but they are “unreceptive to the idea that they be Westernized.” — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 274 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

In his denunciation of the misdeeds of the Shah, Khomeini laid special emphasis on the Western-style emancipation of women, and the sharing of political power with non-Muslims. Other proponents of re- Islamization, in Egypt and elsewhere, have made similar complaints. Their cri­ tique is not, however, limited to these issues, but covers the whole range of social and cultural modernization. Their declared purpose is to undo all the political, legal, and consequent social changes that have been introduced during the period of Westernization, and to restore the full panoply of the Islamic state and the Islamic holy law. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1501 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Violent extremism signals cultural collapse, not traditional cultural resurgence — Scott Atran, The Devoted Actor: Unconditional…, 65; Successful non-Western societies now reject rather than emulate Western values.; Religious revival signals anti-Westernism, not rejection of modernity — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 276 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Religious revival movements accept modernization while rejecting Westernization. #corroborates (0.97) — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 274
• Islamist movements define their program as undoing Westernization rather than rejecting modernity wholesale #corroborates (0.95) — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1501