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What is Islamic Fundamentalism, and how is it impacting the contemporary world?

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Islamic Fundamentalism is a branch of Islam that advocates literal interpretation of the Muslim sacred books, most particularly the Quran. The historian Ira Lapidus has pointed out that there are many varying branches of Fundamentalism, "some exclusivistic, some pluralistic, some favorable to science, some anti-scientific, etc." Fundamentalists do, though, ...

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