Editing Political aspects of Islam (section)

==Sources==
The following sources generally prescribe to the theory that there is a distinct 20th-century movement called Islamism:
* "Children of Abraham: An Introduction to Islam for Jews" Khalid Duran with Abdelwahab Hechiche, The American Jewish Committee and Ktav, 2001
* ''The Islamism Debate'' [[Martin Kramer]], 1997, which includes the chapter [https://web.archive.org/web/20021105103222/http://www.geocities.com/martinkramerorg/Mismeasure.htm The Mismeasure of Political Islam]
* ''Liberal Islam: A Sourcebook'', Charles Kurzman, Oxford University Press, 1998
* ''The Challenge of Fundamentalism: Political Islam and the New World Disorder'', Bassam Tibi, Univ. of California Press, 1998

The following sources challenge the notion of an "Islamist movement":
*[[Edward Said]], ''[[Orientalism (book)|Orientalism]]''
*[[Merryl Wyn Davies]], ''Beyond Frontiers: Islam and Contemporary Needs''
*G. H. Jansen, ''Militant Islam'', 1980
*Hamid Enayat, ''Modern Islamic Political Thought''

These authors in general locate the issues of Islamic political intolerance and fanaticism not in Islam, but in the generally low level of awareness of Islam's own mechanisms for dealing with these, among modern believers, in part a result of Islam being suppressed prior to modern times.