391 Pages
by
Routledge
392 Pages
by
Routledge
373 Pages
by
Routledge
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Americans' awareness of Islam and Muslims rose to seemingly unprecedented heights in the immediate aftermath of September 11, 2001, but this is not the first time they have dominated American public life. Once before, during the period of the Iranian revolution and hostage crisis of 1979 to 1981, Americans found themselves targeted as a consequence of a militant interpretation of Islam. Daniel... Read more
1: Understanding Islam in Politics; I: The Premodern Legacy; 2: Islamic Sacred Law and Politics; 3: The Medieval Synthesis; 4: Relations with Non-Muslims; Conclusion: The Civilization of Islam; II: Encountering the West; 5: Western Armies and Civilization; 6: New Attitudes toward the Sacred Law; 7: Responses to Western Political Ideologies; 8: Muslim Anomie; Conclusion: Muslim Ambivalence; III: Islam in Current Affairs; 9: The Islamic Revival: A Survey of Countries; 10: The Great Oil Boom; Conclusion: The Revival and Future Choices
Biography
Daniel Pipes
