Includes bibliographical references and index.

Palace fundamentalism and liberal democracy / Fatema Mernissi -- The clash of definitions / Edward W. Said -- The clash of civilizations: Samuel P. Huntington, Bernard Lewis, and the remaking of the post-Cold War world order / John Trumpbour -- The clash of civilizations: an Islamicist's critique / Roy P. Mottahedeh -- Among the mimics and parasites: V.S. Naipaul's Islam / Rob Nixon -- Islamic and western worlds: the end of history or clash of civilizations / Mujeeb R. Khan -- Europe and the Muslims: the permanent cursade? / Tomaž Mastnak -- The myth of westernness in medieval literary historiography / María Rosa Menocal -- Islamophobia in France and the "Algerian problem" / Neil MacMaster -- The nationalist Serbian intellectuals and Islam: defining and eliminating a Muslim community / Norman Cigar -- Christ killer, Kremlin, contagion / Michael A. Sells.

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The New Crusades explores the historical, political, and institutional forces that have raised the specter of a threatening and monolithic Muslim enemy. Bringing together twelve of the most influential thinkers in Middle Eastern and religious studies -- including Edward Said, Roy Mottahedeh, and Fatema Mernissi -- this timely collection confronts stereotyped depictions of the Arab-Islamic world, offering instead an informed, critical, and realistic study of contemporary Islam.