Exactly. Islamists aren't traditionalists; they're modernists. Islamists couldn't have existed in the pre-modern erahttps://twitter.com/ragipsoylu/status/752163302898360324 …
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@ragipsoylu @KhateebDimashqi Just because they use Twitter does not make them modernists.
Twitter has little to do with whether a group is "modernist." Mainstream Islamists are modernists b/c they subscribe to fundamentally modern assumptions about the state, the nature of reason, and the law. Here's an excerpt from my book which gets at this:https://nationalpost.com/opinion/shadi-hamid-how-the-scholars-and-anti-imperialists-invented-islamism …