Clash of Fundamentalisms Crusades, Jihads and Modernity

Name: Clash of Fundamentalisms Crusades, Jihads and Modernity
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ISBN: 9781859844571

ISBN-10: 185984457X

ISBN-13: 9781859844571

Edition: 2003

Authors: Tariq Ali

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In this work that provides an explanation for both the rise of Islamic fundamentalism and new forms of Western colonialism, Tariq Ali argues that what we have experienced since September 11 is the return of history in a horrific form.

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication date: 4/17/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 460
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English

Tariq Ali is a writer, filmmaker, and a longtime political activist and campaigner. He has written over a dozen books on world history and politics, including The Clash of Fundamentalisms, Bush in Babylon, Rough Music, and Pirates of the Caribbean: The Axis of Hope, as well as scripts for both stage and screen.



Acknowledgements


Introduction to the Paperback Edition


Prologue



Mullahs and Heretics



An atheist childhood



The origins of Islam



The empire of the world



Jerusalem, Jerusalem



Ottomanism



The joys of heresy



Women versus the eternal masculine



One Hundred Years of Servitude



A spring memory



The roots of Wahhabism



The kingdom of corruption



Zionism, the First Oil War, resistance



Marginal notes on the chapter of defeats



The anti-imperialism of fools



An ocean of terror



The Nuclear Wastelands of South Asia



The case of Anwar Shaikh



Plain tales from Pakistan



Afghanistan: between hammer and anvil



The story of Kashmir



The colour khaki



A Clash of Fundamentalisms



A short-course history of US imperialism



September surprise



Letter to a young Muslim



Epilogue: The Road to Bali



A small town in Java



Islam on the Equator



A tropical gulag



An island made secure



On the Israeli-Arab war



Index