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Trial of a Thousand Years - World Order and Islamism (Hardcover, New)
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Trial of a Thousand Years - World Order and Islamism (Hardcover, New)
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'A Muslim has no nationality except his religious beliefs,' said
Egyptian Sayyid Qutb, a key figure in the world of political Islam
who was executed by the secular regime in his homeland in 1966. For
decades, the ideologues of pan-Islam have refused to accept the
boundaries and the responsibilities of the order of states. In
Trial of a Thousand Years, Charles Hill analyzes the long war of
Islamism against the international state system. Hill places the
Islamists in their proper historical place, showing that they are
but the latest challenge to the requirements that states had placed
on themselves since the international system was born in 1648. The
author describes the many wars on world order over the modern
centuries--the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars, World Wars I
and II, the cold war--and gives a unique historical perspective to
the Islamic challenge of the twenty-first century in Iran,
Afghanistan, and beyond. He concludes that America must not give up
its values; neither should we retreat by declaring that we will
practice them only at home or by telling ourselves that our values
are no more worthy than any others selected at random from among
the world's many cultures. The first step, he says, is to recognize
the problem and then try to develop ways to deal with the
exploitation of asymmetries by the enemies of world order.
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