304 pages
English language
Published Sept. 27, 2004 by Pantheon Books.
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"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.
"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.
Subjects
- Cold War.
- Islam and politics -- History -- 20th century.
- Terrorism -- Political aspects -- History -- 20th century.
- Drug traffic -- Political aspects -- History -- 20th century.
- September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.
- United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1989.
- United States -- Foreign relations -- Afghanistan.
- Afghanistan -- Foreign relations -- United States.
- United States -- Foreign relations -- Developing countries.
- Developing countries -- Foreign relations -- United States.