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