The clash of fundamentalisms : crusades, jihads and modernity / Tariq Ali.

By: Ali, TariqMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: London : Verso, 2002Description: x, 342 p. : ill., map ; 21 cmISBN: 1859846793Subject(s): Islam -- 20th century | Islamic fundamentalism | World politics -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 909.83 LOC classification: BP163 | .A623 2002Online resources: Table of contents | Contributor biographical information | Publisher description
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: PART I Mullahs and Heretics -- 1 An atheist childhood -- 2 The origins of Islam -- 3 The empire of the world -- 4 Jerusalem, Jerusalem -- 5 Ottomanism -- 6 The joys of heresy -- 7 Women versus the eternal masculine --PART II One Hundred Years of Servitude -- 8 A spring memory -- 9 The roots of Wahhabism -- 10 The kingdom of corruption -- 11 Zionism, the First Oil War, resistance -- 12 Marginal notes on the chapter of defeats -- 13 The anti-imperialism of fools -- 14 An ocean of terror --PART III The Nuclear Wastelands of South Asia -- 15 The case ofAnwar Shaikh -- 16 Plain tales from Pakistan -- 17 Afghanistan: between hammer and anvil -- 18 The story of Kashmir --PART IV A Clash of Fundamentalisms -- 19 A short-course history of US imperialism -- 20 September surprise -- 21 Letter to a young Muslim --Appendix On the Israeli-Arab war -- Isaac Deutscher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: PART I Mullahs and Heretics -- 1 An atheist childhood -- 2 The origins of Islam -- 3 The empire of the world -- 4 Jerusalem, Jerusalem -- 5 Ottomanism -- 6 The joys of heresy -- 7 Women versus the eternal masculine --PART II One Hundred Years of Servitude -- 8 A spring memory -- 9 The roots of Wahhabism -- 10 The kingdom of corruption -- 11 Zionism, the First Oil War, resistance -- 12 Marginal notes on the chapter of defeats -- 13 The anti-imperialism of fools -- 14 An ocean of terror --PART III The Nuclear Wastelands of South Asia -- 15 The case ofAnwar Shaikh -- 16 Plain tales from Pakistan -- 17 Afghanistan: between hammer and anvil -- 18 The story of Kashmir --PART IV A Clash of Fundamentalisms -- 19 A short-course history of US imperialism -- 20 September surprise -- 21 Letter to a young Muslim --Appendix On the Israeli-Arab war -- Isaac Deutscher.

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