Abstract: | "The Great oil boom was an event so profoundly and broadly influential that it provides the key to understanding the surge of Islam." — Daniel Pipes, 1983. "Yet it is naive to attribute the Islamic revival mainly to oil." — John Esposito, 1985. "Yes, I did publish a book in 1983, In the Path of God , suggesting that the resurgence of Islam in the 1970s resulted from the boom in oil wealth. At this point I don't know what causes fundamentalism‥It] may be too complicated for us to figure out." — Daniel Pipes, 1994. "In the long run, many academics were proved right." — David D. Newsom, 1995-96. |