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Title: The New Crusades: Constructing the Muslim Enemy by Emran Qureshi, Michael A. Sells, Michael Anthony Sells ISBN: 0-231-12667-0 Publisher: Columbia University Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Necessary antidote for reading on Islam or the US "Crusade"
Comment: Serious readers about Islam and US policy should reflect on most of the essays in this book. It is a necessary antidote to all the simplifications and hidden agendas in the press, policy, and publications by "popular" writers on Islam who so often seem driven by hate, profits, or noteriety. Read here to reconsider the "Huntington Thesis" and it Lewis 'roots'. Reflect on the implications for Bush's "Crusade". The essay on Christian Serb terrorism and the manipulation of hatred is valuable for its general lessons as well. How think tanks and best sellers sway policy among those with limited depth of knowlege is worth considering -- especially when there seems to be an intellectual "Gresham's Law" of punditry. The continued importance of history and memory is highlighted. A variety of authors with considerable knowlege and depth offer valuable insights into where we are and how we got there - about myths and reality that are central to the what has been dubbed "the war on terror" and is often seen by Muslims with some justification as a "war on Islam" -- a Crusade.
Rating: 5
Summary: A clarion call against the dangerous simplification of Islam
Comment: The New Crusades is a timely collection of essays that deals with a dangerous myth - the inherent violence of Islamic civilisation. The editors provide a useful introduction on the ideological shaping of the new Muslim enemy. They point out that the real fundamentalists are those who refuse to see the multiple identities that claim overlapping allegiances in the territorial bounds of the Arab and Muslim world. In support of diversity, the contributors included in the collection are heterogeneous - they range from first-rate scholars and Islamicists like Roy Mottahedeh of Harvard University to well-known journalists like Ahmed Rashid who have written popular accounts of militant Muslim movements. Edward Said is included in this collection, which makes the Post-Orientalist political bent of this volume clear enough (e.g. Bernard Lewis is mostly on the receiving end. but through reasoned argument, it must be said). There is a particularly illuminating essay by Mottahedeh that elegantly dispatches with Huntington's clash of civilisation thesis in the manner of a master historian dealing with a sophomore's essay. Another contributor demolishes the dangerous and bigoted simplifications of Islam contained in the work of V.S. Naipaul. But there are also the sounds of axes grinding in this collection and "ancient hatreds" between feuding academics and rival disciplines in the study of Islam, Muslims and the Arab world. One world sees all of Islam as potentially violent. The other sees potential violence arising from the demonisation of Islam.
Indeed, after reading many of the essays, you will come to the depressing conclusion that the crusades of the East of the 11th to 13th century are still very much alive in the 21st century.
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Title: Following Muhammad: Rethinking Islam in the Contemporary World (Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks) by Carl W. Ernst ISBN: 0807828378 Publisher: University of North Carolina Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Approaching the Qur'an: The Early Revelations by Michael Anthony Sells, Michael Sells ISBN: 1883991269 Publisher: White Cloud Press Pub. Date: 15 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Wahhabism: A Critical Essay by Hamid Algar ISBN: 188999913X Publisher: Islamic Publications International Pub. Date: 10 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Teaching Islam (Aar Teaching Religious Studies Series) by Brannon M. Wheeler ISBN: 0195152255 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America's Perilous Path in the Middle East by Rashid Khalidi ISBN: 0807002348 Publisher: Beacon Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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