ABSTRACT
Characterized by xenophobia in facing the challenge of Islam's decline and Western and Zionist ascendancy, and aspiring to recapitulate Islam's earliest period of success, the fundamentalists have been sensitive to Islam's Jewish problem and attentive to the lessons of Islam's sacred sources on this subject. Whether directly or indirectly, in the center or on the periphery, the Jews have often invaded the general concerns of fundamentalist intellectuals. Sometimes the fundamentalists even portrayed the Jews as identical with, partners of, or related to the persons and forces responsible for the catastrophe. With the thesis that Islam's predicament stemmed from attrition of Islamic values and their substitution by alien Western ones and the advocacy of society's radical Islamic renewal as the solution, some fundamentalists even saw the Jews and Zionism as an internal presence somehow identified with the westernizing forces that were bent on corrupting Islamic traditions.
