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With regard to the formal structure of the tradition, we need not beat about the bush. In obvious ways the Islamic heritage lends itself so easily to fundamentalization that it could almost be said to invite it.

— Michael Cook Ancient religions, modern politics, the Islamic case in comparative perspective (2014)

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