ABSTRACT
Modern Islamic fundamentalism was to a significant extent conceived in the Indian Deobandi movement, from which comes Mawdudi, the Pakistani who inspired the Egyptians Qutb and Faraj and the now second in command for Al Qauda Al-Zawahiri. The Aligarh movement would serve Moslems better than the Deobandi School. The Muslim community in India responded to the British destruction of the Mogul Empire with a seminary in Deoband in 1866 by former students of the Delhi madressa, destroyed after the "Revolt of 1857". To understand the emergence of Islamic fundamentalism and its new doctrine about jihad one will look at a few of the key personalities behind the movement: Mawdudi, Qutb and Faraj. As fundamentalism with this new doctrine of Islamic terrorism becomes more widespread within the Muslim civilisation in the early twenty-first century, Weber's perspective – Islam as a religion of warriors – is more relevant than it was hundred years ago.
