Islamist revolutionaries rejected the West selectively, not wholesale

Evidence

An examination of the record of these revolutionaries, however, in Iran and elsewhere, reveals that the rejection of the West and its offerings is by no means as comprehensive and as undiscriminating as propaganda might indicate, and that at least certain importations from the lands of unbelief are still very welcome. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1123

Categorization

• XREF: Complicates the tidy Orientalist binary of ‘Islam vs. West’ — the selective adoption point resonates with studies of modern Islamism’s actual material practices.