Editing Islamic fundamentalism (section)

==Goals==
===Interpretation of texts===
Islamic fundamentalists, or at least "reformist" fundamentalists, believe that Islam is based on the Qur'an, [[Hadith]] and [[Sunnah]] and "criticize the tradition, the commentaries, popular religious practices ([[marabout]]ism, the cult of saints), deviations, and superstitions. They aim to return to the founding texts."<ref name=ORFPI1994:30-1/> Examples of individuals who adhere to this tendency are the 18th-century Shah Waliullah in India and [[Muhammad ibn Abd-al-Wahhab]] in the Arabian Peninsula.<ref name=ORFPI1994:30-1/> This view is commonly associated with [[Salafism]] today.

===Social and political ===
Along with adherents of other [[Fundamentalism|fundamentalist]] movements,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wfu.edu/~matthetl/perspectives/twentyone.html|first=Terry L.|last=Matthews|title=Fundamentalism|access-date=29 August 2009|work=Lectures for Religion 166: Religious Life in the United States|publisher=Wake Forest University|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091006100127/http://www.wfu.edu/~matthetl/perspectives/twentyone.html|archive-date=6 October 2009}}</ref> Islamic fundamentalists hold the view that the problems of the world stem from [[secularism|secular]] influences.

Some scholars of Islam, such as [[Bassam Tibi]], believe that, contrary to their own message, Islamic fundamentalists are not actually traditionalists. He refers to ''[[fatwa]]hs'' which have been issued by fundamentalists such as the fatwa which states that "every Muslim who pleads for the suspension of the shari'a is an apostate and can be killed. The killing of those apostates cannot be prosecuted under Islamic law because this killing is justified" as going beyond, and unsupported by, the Qur'an. Tibi asserts, "The command to slay reasoning Muslims is un-Islamic, an invention of Islamic fundamentalists".<ref>[[Bassam Tibi]], ''The Challenge of Fundamentalism: Political Islam and the New World Disorder. Updated Edition.'' Los Angeles, [[University of California Press]]: 2002. Excerpt available online as [http://middleeastinfo.org/article4453.html ''The Islamic Fundamentalist Ideology: Context and the Textual Sources''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927212444/http://middleeastinfo.org/article4453.html |date=27 September 2007 }} at [http://middleeastinfo.org/ Middle East Information Center].</ref><ref>Douglas Pratt, [http://web.uni-marburg.de/religionswissenschaft/journal/mjr/art_pratt_2006.html "Terrorism and Religious Fundamentalism: Prospects for a Predictive Paradigm"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081227215620/http://web.uni-marburg.de/religionswissenschaft/journal/mjr/art_pratt_2006.html |date=27 December 2008 }}, ''Marburg Journal of Religion'', [[Philipps-Universität Marburg]], Volume 11, No. 1 (June 2006)</ref>