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The Crisis of Islam - Holy War and Unholy Terror (Paperback, New Ed)
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The Crisis of Islam - Holy War and Unholy Terror (Paperback, New Ed)
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At a time when many in the world are anxious to learn more about
Islam, to understand what it is that drives the likes of Osama bin
Laden and his followers to commit their terrible atrocities in the
name of jihad, this slim volume by one of the West's foremost
historians of Islam is a welcome, indeed necessary, addition to the
wealth of books on this and related issues which have been spawned
by the events of September 11 2001. Islam in both its senses -
religion and civilization - dates back over 14 centuries to the
advent of the Prophet Muhammad. Today more than ever, though,
religion remains, in most Islamic countries, a major political
force; Lewis argues that it is not only a matter of faith and
practice, but also 'an identity and a loyalty'. This perhaps goes
some way to explain why a small minority of Muslims will go to such
extreme lengths to rid the world of the forces of evil embodied by
the United States of America and Zionism. Having considered the
ideological background, Lewis goes on to consider the way forward -
how so-called Islamic fundamentalists are likely to prosecute their
cause in the future and how the West can best deal with a terrorist
threat which can only be fuelled by the poverty and tyranny which
affects most of the Muslim world and an exploding population of
'unemployed, uneducated and frustrated young men'. Lewis states
that 'in devising means to fight the terrorists, it would surely be
useful to understand the forces that drive them'; this book is a
useful aid to that understanding. (Kirkus UK)
The great scholar of Islam directly confronts the events of
September 11th and the reasons behind Islamic terrorism in the
modern world - a Sunday Times bestseller. President Bush has made
it clear that we are engaged in a war against terrorism. But for
Osama bin Laden and his followers this is religious war, a war for
Islam against infidels, especially the United States, the greatest
power in the world of the infidels. In this book Bernard Lewis
shows us where the anger and frustration have come from, and the
extent to which almost the entire Muslim world is affected by
poverty and tyranny. He looks at the influence of extreme Wahhabist
doctrines in the Saudi kingdom, where custodianship of Islam's holy
places and the revenues of oil have given worldwide impact to what
would otherwise have been an extremist fringe in a marginal
country. He looks at American double standards, which have long
caused Muslim anger, and tells us the real meaning of `Islamic
fundamentalism', `jihad' and `fatwa', and why the peoples of the
Middle East are conscious of history in a way most Americans find
difficult to understand.
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