Islam Through Western Eyes From the Crusades to the War on Terrorism

Name: Islam Through Western Eyes From the Crusades to the War on Terrorism
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ISBN: 9780231158947

ISBN-10: 0231158947

ISBN-13: 9780231158947

Edition: 2012

Authors: Jonathan Lyons

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Despite the West's growing involvement in Muslim societies, conflicts, and cultures, its inability to understand or analyze the Islamic world threatens to curb any prospect of East-West rapprochement. Impelled by one thousand years of anti-Muslim ideas and images, the West has failed to engage in any meaningful or productive way with the world of Islam. Formulated in the medieval halls of the Roman Curia and courts of the European Crusaders and perfected in the newsrooms of Fox and CNN, this anti-Islamic discourse determines what can and cannot be said about Muslims and their religion, trapping the West in a dangerous, dead-end politics that it cannot afford in a rapidly globalizing world.A…

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List price: $80.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 1/20/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 0.67" wide x 0.93" long x 0.09" tall
Weight: 1.122
Language: English



Acknowledgments



War Without End?



Foucault's Toolbox



The Western Idea of Islam



Islam and Science



Islam and Violence



Islam and Women



What's Wrong with Us?


Notes


Bibliography


Index