Good Muslim, bad Muslim: America, the Cold War, and the roots of terror
"Dispels the idea of 'good' (secular, westernized) and 'bad' (premodern, fanatical) Muslims, pointing out that these judgments refer to political rather than cultural or religious identities ... Argues that political Islam emerged as the result of a modern encounter with Western power, and that the terrorist movement at the center of Islamist politics is an even more recent phenomenon, one that followed America's embrace of proxy war after its defeat in Vietnam"--Jacket.
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- Full title :Good Muslim, bad Muslim : America, the Cold War, and the roots of terror / Mahmood Mamdani.
Summary
"Dispels the idea of 'good' (secular, westernized) and 'bad' (premodern, fanatical) Muslims, pointing out that these judgments refer to political rather than cultural or religious identities ... Argues that political Islam emerged as the result of a modern encounter with Western power, and that the terrorist movement at the center of Islamist politics is an even more recent phenomenon, one that followed America's embrace of proxy war after its defeat in Vietnam"--Jacket.
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- Publication Date:©2004
- Edition:First Three Leaves Press Edition
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Three Leaves Press
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2004
Notes
"Good Muslim, bad Muslim was originally published in hardcover by Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc., in 2004" (verso t.p.).
The Physical Object
- Description:xii, 304 pages ; : 21 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0385515375, 9780385515375, 0375422854, 9780375422850
- oclc:ocm60718223
- LC Classification:E840
- Dewey Decimal:320.5'57
Table of Contents
Modernity and violence -- Culture talk, or How not to talk about Islam and politics -- The Cold War after Indochina -- Afghanistan : the high point in the Cold War -- From proxy wars to open aggression -- Beyond impunity and collective punishment.
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