Modern Islamist Movements provides a clear and accessible examination of the history, beliefs and rationale of Islamic fundamentalism and its grievances, from the crusades to the present, with the West. Armajani pays particular attention to the formative relationship between the Bin Ladenists, Islamic fundamentalists, and Islamic intellectual trends beginning in the late eighteenth century and covers the historic development of Islamic fundamentalism in Egypt, the West Bank and Gaza, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Afghanistan.