Devil's Game How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam

Name: Devil's Game How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam
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ISBN: 9780805081374

ISBN-10: 0805081372

ISBN-13: 9780805081374

Edition: 2006

Authors: Robert Dreyfuss

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"The most clear and engaging history of the deadly, historic partnership between Western powers and political Islam."--Salon.com "Devil's Game" is the first comprehensive account of America's misguided efforts, stretching across decades, to dominate the strategically vital Middle East by courting and cultivating Islamic fundamentalism. Drawing on extensive archival research and interviews with dozens of policy makers and CIA, Pentagon, and foreign service officials, Robert Dreyfuss follows the trail of American collusion from support for the Muslim Brotherhood in 1950s Egypt, to links with Khomeini and Afghani jihadists, to longstanding ties between radical Islamists and the leading banks…

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List price: $21.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
Publication date: 10/3/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 0.770
Language: English



Introduction



Imperial Pan-Islam



England's Brothers



Islam Meets the Cold War



The War against Nasser and Mossadegh



The King of All Islam



The Sorcerer's Apprentice



The Rise of Economic Islam



Israel's Islamists



Hell's Ayatollah



Jihad I: The "Arc of Islam"



Jihad II: Into Central Asia



Clash of Civilizations?


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index