The clash of fundamentalisms : crusades, jihads and modernity / Tariq Ali
By: Ali, Tariq.
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TextPublisher: London : Verso, 2002.Description: x, 342 p.ISBN: 185984457X.Subject(s): Islam -- 20th century | Islamic fundamentalism | Religion and politics | Islamic countries | World politics -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 909.83 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group Library | 909.83 ALI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | T574 |
Part 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 -- Part 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 -- Part 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 -- Part IV: A clash of fundamentalisms. A short-course history of US imperialism -- September surprise -- Letter to a young Muslim -- Appendix: On the Israeli-Arab war.
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