Horizon Information Portal

HSPLS site

eBooks/Audiobooks

Reading Program

The clash of fundamentalisms : crusades, jihads and modernity / Tariq Ali.

View full image

London ; New York : Verso, 2003.

Islam -- 20th century.

Islamic fundamentalism.

World politics -- 20th century.

185984457X (pbk.) :

xxxii, 428 p. : map ; 21 cm.

pt. 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 masculine -- pt. 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 -- pt. 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 -- pt. IV: A clash of fundamentalisms. A short-course history of US imperialism -- September surprise -- Letter to a young Muslim -- pt. V: Epilogue: the road to Bali. A small town in Java -- Islam on the Equator --A tropical gulag -- An island made secure -- Appendix: On the Israeli-Arab war / Isaac Deutscher.

Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9884

Powered by Dynix

© 2001-2013 SirsiDynix All rights reserved.

Horizon Information Portal