Challenging the new orientalism : dissenting essays on the "War against Islam" / M. Shahid Alam.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alam, M. Shahid (Mohammad Shahid), 1950-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islamic countries--Foreign relations--United States.

Islamic countries.

International relations.

United States.

United States--Foreign relations--Islamic countries.

September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001--Causes.

September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.

Terrorism--United States.

Terrorism.

Terrorism--Israel.

Israel.

Physical Description:

xxii, 248 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

North Haledon, NJ : Islamic Publications International, 2006.

Contents:

Contents

Preface

Section 1. The new orientalism

Bernard Lewis: scholarship or sophistry?

A clash of civilizations? Nonsense

The war against global terrorism

Is there an Islamic problem?

How different are Islamicate societies?

Islam: an interview

Section 2. Palestine and Israel

A colonizing project built on lies

Academic boycott of Israel

Crossing the line

Israel's proxy war

Illuminating Thomas Friedman

Lerner, Said and the Palestinians

Elie Wiesel: on being good victims

Recognizing Israel: or selling out

Another wall

Voiding the Palestinians: an allegory

Section 3. War against global terrorism

A history of September 11

A day that changed America?

Why 9-11 and why now?

Dialectics of terror

Race and visibility

Iraq is free

Semantics of empire

America imagine this

The Islamic resistance

Testing free speech in America

Real men go to Tehran

The Muslims America loves

Author index

Subject index.

Notes:

Previously published as Is there an Islamic problem? (Kuala Lumpur : The Other Press, 2004.)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1889999458

9781889999456

1889999466

9781889999463

OCLC:

70219948