The Muslim Revolt: A Journey Through Political Islam - Softcover

Hardy, Roger

Softcover

ISBN 10: 184904032X ISBN 13: 9781849040327

Verlag: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

'We fail to understand Islam,' writes Roger Hardy in the introduction to this book, 'and we are paying a high price for our failure.' "The Muslim Revolt" explains, in layman's language, a phenomenon that still seems to madden and perplex both the public and the policy-makers. In setting out to demystify Islamism and the forces that drive it, Hardy suggests that for the last two hundred years Muslims have been in revolt against Western domination - and against the failures and disappointments of modernisation. The book takes the form of a journey. Drawing on his travels and encounters as a journalist over the last thirty years, the author explains the political role of Islam in particular countries and regions - Egypt, Iran, Pakistan, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, south-east Asia, Europe - while at the same time telling the story of Islamism from its origins in the era of European colonialism to the emergence of Al-Qaeda and the global jihadists of today. In a challenging conclusion, Hardy warns that without a subtler grasp of Islamism and its discontents, the West will lose its much-vaunted battle for Muslim 'hearts and minds'.

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Roger Hardy has been a Middle East and Islamic affairs analyst with the BBC World Service for over twenty years. He has made a series of radio programmes about Muslims in the Middle East, Europe and south Asia, and is a regular contributor to the Economist, International Affairs and the New Statesman.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 184904032X
• ISBN 13: 9781849040327
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 208
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