Contents: Foreword/Georgie Anne Geyer. Preface/Davina Miller. Introduction: in the eye of the storm. 1. Dogmatism versus democracy: a brief history of fundamentalism. 2. The pillars of the Mullahs’ rule. 3. The Post-Khomeini regime. 4. "Mother of All Islamic Lands": The Mullahs’ foreign policy. 5. Fertile grounds for fundamentalism. 6. The Iran-Iraq war. 7. Arms of the Octopus: exporting fundamentalism to Central Asia. 8. Fundamentalism in the Arab world. 9. An "International Islamic Army". 10. Terrorism: Iran’s foreign policy instrument. 11. The Mullahs and Middle East peace. 12. Armed to the teeth. 13. Crisis from all sides: inside the Mullahs’ regime. 14. The search for a solution. 15. Modern, democratic Islam: antithesis to fundamentalism. Notes. Appendix. Index.

"Islamic Fundamentalism is an affirmation of the wisdom of the Quran and the Prophet Muhammad. It describes, however, the dire effects of fundamentalism fed by the frenzy of the ayatollahs of Iran, beginning with Khomeini." (jacket)