ABSTRACT
The decade of the 1970s marked a time of major transformation and reorientation, and in the early years of its fifteenth century, beginning in 1979-1980, Islam was in the midst of a new surge of dynamism. On the broadest level, the resurgence is the product of developments within modern society and the continuing appeal of the Islamic tradition. Part of the criticism of the Soviet experience is reflected in the contemporary criticism of the radical socialist systems in the Islamic world once they were in power. The potential for mass mobilization that has resulted from modernization has played a significant role in the transformation of radicalism in the Islamic world. The experience of Saudi Arabia in the 1970s shows that Islamic fundamentalism in its more traditional form is a dynamic and viable Islamic style. In more than a decade of development, the Libyan revolution has shown itself to be consistent in its fundamentalist style of Islam.
