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The clash of fundamentalisms : crusades, Jihads and modernity / Tariq Ali.
LIBRA BL238 .A45 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ali, Tariq.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Religious fundamentalism--History.
- Religious fundamentalism.
- Islamic fundamentalism.
- World politics--20th century.
- World politics.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- x, 342 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Verso, 2002.
- Contents:
- Part I: 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 machine
- Part II: 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
- Part III: The nuclear wastelands of South Asia. The case of Anwar Shaikh
- Plain tales from Pakistan
- Afghanistan: between hammer and anvil
- The story of Kashmir
- Part IV: A clash of fundamentalism. A short-course history of US imperialism
- September surprise
- Letter to a young Muslim
- Appendix: On the Arab-Israeli war.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1859846793
- OCLC:
- 48834950
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