1-Islam Women And Sex (2nd Edition)

[Rhyfelwyr]

@Hax: good points, I was just throwing things out as an idea; you are better placed to know than me.

Rhyfelwyr, something to add. The origin of funtamentalistic Islam was about 1900 iirc. Basically the Arab world came to the conclusion that they were backwater places at the time and tried to decide why that was. One group went secular (Islam is holding us back) and the other group fundmentalistic (we have fallen from the true path). The secular group won (mostly) and established secular dictorships. The fundamentalist groups remained in the opposition, so when the secular dictorships weakened/fell they were already in place to take power.

I don't think it is true that fundamentalist Islam emerged only in 1900 AD. Fundamentalism has ebbed and flowed continually throughout Islam's history. Muhammad himself was a puritanical warrior-prophet, and well... the earliest Muslims were obviously fundamentalists since they followed the fundamental principles Muhammad set down. When the Abbasids overthrew the Umayyads a large part of their justification was on returning to some sort of golden age of Islamic morality. The Murabitun of the medieval period were notoriously fundamentalist and banned music, imposed strict Islamic dress and segregation and trashed much of the vibrant culture that existed in Ghana and Andalusia prior to their excursions. Certain Fatimid rulers were also strongly opposed to idolatry (most notably this guy) and trashed Christian and Jewish places of worship in Jerusalem and forced Jews to wear decorative calves to remind them of Aaron's idolatry.

If you are talking about modern fundamentalism, then yes that emerged with the Wahhabi movement, but that is only a small part of the fundamentalist story in Islamic history.