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Title: Rethinking Islamism
Condition: New
Subtitle: The Ideology of the New Terror
Author: Meghnad Desai
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 1845112679
EAN: 9781845112677
ISBN: 9781845112677
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
Genre: Law & Politics
Topic: Society & Culture, Social Sciences
Release Date: 27/10/2006
Description: Despite increasingly frantic calls - especially after the London bombings of July 7, 2005 - for western leaders to 'understand Islam better', there is a still a critical distinction that needs to be made between 'Islam' as religion and 'Islamism' in the sense of militant mindset. As the author of this provocative new book sees it, it is not a more nuanced understanding of Islam that will help the western powers defeat the jihadi threat, but rather a proper understanding of Islamism: a political ideology which is quite distinct from religion. While Islamism may be draped in religious imagery and suffused by apocalyptic language, it nevertheless is similar in nature to secular ideologies of terror. And once, the author holds, this is properly appreciated, the ways to defeat it will become much better evident. Historically sophisticated and passionately argued, "Rethinking Islamism" makes a powerful case by a master theorist of political philosophy. It will be essential reading for students and policy-makers in the fields of politics, current affairs and religion.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 216mm
Item Length: 138mm
Release Year: 2006

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