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Chapter one discusses such issues as the factors behind the growth of revivalist movements, fundamental issues that provide the primary focus for revivalist writings, the bias of scholars in the West who write and conduct research on Islamic and Middle Eastern studies, and the establishment of Shari'ah schools in Muslim countries.
For example, the author refers to al 'Arabi and al Muslim al Mu 'iisir as "two Kuwaiti magazines" that tried to promote an intellectual controversy on "whether the companions of the Prophet Muhammad were leftist or rightist and whether the sources of the formative period of Islam can be subjected to modem re-interpretation to justify claims of Islamic precedent to proponents of 'Islamic left' and 'Islamic right'" (p.
The author seems to have a clear understanding of the subject and the literature to be covered in the bibliography, for he says that "these concepts become the foundation for a new discourse that is significantly both Islamic and modem.
The bibliographic part contains 1,225 entries of English-language material published on the subject of contemporary Islamic revivalism during the period 1970-1988.
This is obvious from their statement: "Given the fact that much of the material contained in this bibliography is not available in such places as The Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature or Index lslamicus, the editors chose to forego fuller annotation for the purpose of 565 566 The American Journal of Islamic Social Scienes 9:4 providing as many substantive references as possible.